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of New Discovery. By the Editor of the Cheap Magazine. Dunbar. 

 2 vols, small 8vo. 10s. 6d. — This is a religious natural history, which has 

 been strongly recommended in most of the Scotch newspapers, and which 

 has been sent to us as " peculiarly adapted for village, itinerating, or garden 

 libraries." 



The Cato Major and Lcelius of Cicero ; with a double Translation, for 

 the Use of Students on the Hamiltonian System. London, Hunt and 

 Clarke. 8vo. Is. 6d. 



The History of Charles XII., by Voltaire; the first Three Books, with 

 a double Translation, for the Use of Students on the Hamiltonian System. 

 London, Hunt and Clarke. 2 vols. 8vo. 15s. 



These books we have looked over, and can strongly recommend to every 

 young gardener desirous of learning French or Latin. 



The Library of Useful Knowledge continues to appear twice a month in 

 sixpenny numbers. The gardener will find something applicable to his pro- 

 fession in every number. In No. 2., Hydraulics, the water ram, a self-working 

 engine for raising water, applicable to at least one third of the country 

 seats in Britain, but which we have only seen in use at Bury Hill, Surrey, 

 is clearly described ; in No. 3., every thing relating to pumps is explained j 

 in 4. and 5., every thing relating to heat ; in 6, 7, and 8., every thing useful 

 relating to machines ; and in 9., the mechanics of the human frame, under- 

 stood to be by Charles Bell, one of the most beautiful and instructive 

 treatises that ever were written, and which every labourer ought to peruse, 

 if it were only that he may be enabled to make a proper use of his strength. 



Art. XI. Answers to Queries, and Queries. 



CUTTING over young Forest Trees, (p. 119.) — Sir, — In compliance with your 

 request, and in reply to the queries of your correspondent W. Thonville, 

 I beg to submit the following remarks: — The progress that newly planted 

 trees will make, depends much on the age and size of the plants, their pre- 

 vious treatment in the nursery, the season of planting, and the manner in 

 which that operation is performed. To offer directions as to each or any 

 of these particulars, might extend the present communication to an impro- 

 per length ; and the information it would contain might appear superfluous 

 to your correspondent, and to many of your readers. 



In the act of transplanting, the plant is deprived of many of its smallest 

 and most efficient feeding radicles, and the remainder are not unfre- 

 quently more crowded together than they were before taking up, which 

 often tends to check the growth the first season after planting, and this 

 check is strengthened and sometimes confirmed by the following causes: — 

 While the plants stand in crowded nursery rows, the dense foliage in a 

 great measure protects the stem and exterior parts of the shoots from the 

 action of the weather, and a thin and delicate bark will be formed, tender 

 in proportion to the confined state of the atmosphere where such plants 

 grow : and hence the check which is often produced by too violent thinning 

 on neglected plantations. No sooner are young plants removed from the 

 nursery to the open ground, where they are exposed to the full play of the 

 winds, than a hardening and contraction of the bark commences ; and, 

 while the process of forming a stronger and more impervious bark, suitable 

 to the climate, is going forward, the usual results of bark-binding and 

 stunted growth are accelerated by the damage sustained by the roots in the 

 recent act of transplanting, and the limited flow of sap consequent on such 



