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group so as to throw the surface into agreeable shapes, {fig. 83.) This will 





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be found all that the principle of original beauty of forms and lines can do, 

 in planting a flat surface, without reference to other beauties, either of the 

 materials of the scenes, or of the exterior scenery, or of established associa- 

 tions. 



Art. X. Garden Libraries. 



LIBRARY in the Glasgow Botanic Garden. — Your ideas as to garden 

 libraries have been anticipated and acted upon to some extent by Mr. 

 Murray, the very intelligent and judicious curator of the Glasgow botanic 

 garden, for some years. By the application of a small sum annually, a 

 considerable number of books on gardening subjects have been collected, 

 expressly for the use of the workmen, who are besides allowed to attend 

 the botanical lectures delivered at the garden (a most important advan- 

 tage), in consideration of being sometimes detained in the evening watering 

 during hot weather. — A. W. July 27. 



A Library has been formed in a haberdasher's house in London, where 

 there are upwards of twenty young men, who all board in the house, and 

 who are thereby kept at home, improving and entertaining themselves, 

 instead of running about the streets, without any definite object in view. 

 This is a practice well deserving of imitation by other tradesmen. {Times, 

 Sept. 18.) 



The following Books we are desirous of recommending to young garden- 

 ers and to garden libraries in a most particular manner : — 



Arnotfs Elements of Natural Philosophy. 8vo. pp.700. 155. — This is 

 one of the most valuable works of the kind that have ever been published. 

 We cannot sufficiently recommend it to every gardener whatever, whether 

 young or old. It is a work which a man may take with him on a journey 

 to exercise his mind, as Dr. Johnson took with him a book of arithmetic on 

 his Highland tour. In an ample analysis of the work, in the Times news- 

 paper, Oct. 3., after the highest praise, it is added : " To the most idle 

 schoolboy it will be as entertaining as a treatise on witchcraft or leger- 

 demain, and he will go through it with as much avidity ; and it is, at the 

 same time, a work in which the best informed man will find a great number 

 of curious facts and illustrations, which, whatever his familiarity with prin- 

 ciples may be, were probably not within his recollection, and very possibly 

 not within his knowledge." 



Popular Philosophy ; or, the Book of Nature laid open upon Christian 

 Principles, and agreeably to the Lights of Modern Science and the Progress 



