French, German, and Italian Booh. 337 



We fear, therefore, that the grubs must be left to the crows and rooks, 

 and the perfect insect gathered by hand. In England this might form a 

 parochial occupation for the aged poor of both sexes, and for children, at 

 so much a score. We shall be most happy if our French readers derive 

 any useful information from what we have been able to collect. — Cond. 



Chateauvieux, M. Lullin de, Author of Letters on Italy, &c. : 



1. Lettre a M. Pictet, sur la Ferme ExpeYimentale de Coppet. " Paris. 

 Pamph. 8vo, pp. 59. 



2. Reunion Agricole, dans la Ferme Experimental de Coppet, le Vendredi, 

 Sept. 29. 1826. Paris. Pamph. 



Mdmoires d' Agricidture, d' Economic r urate et domestique, publies par la 

 Socie'te Royale et Centrale d' Agriculture. Paris. 8vo, 1vol. pp.452. 2 pis. 



This volume contains biographical notices of two deceased members j 

 reports on a machine for separating clover seed; on veterinary medicine; 

 on manures ; on the translation of books on agriculture, calculated for the 

 improvement of France ; on cider ; on the blindness of horses ; on the 

 national forests ; on the shepherd Samson, who received a medal for the 

 care taken of his flock ; on the improvements made by Comte Hendelet ; 

 on the experimental farm of M. Demerson ; on Gruyere cheese ; on fal- 

 lows j on the Hainault scythe ; and on the preservation of grain. 



Germany. 



Voght, Baron von, a Proprietor and Cultivator at Flotbec on the Elbe, near 

 Hamburgh : Landwirthschaftlicher Schriften. A Collection of Papers 

 on Rural Economy. Hamburgh. 8vo, pp. 364. 



We have already [Gard Mag., vol. i. p. 441.) noticed an ingenious work 

 of this author : the present is a relation of experiments in the language of 

 his peculiar statistics ; and we would recommend both volumes to our con- 

 temporary, Mr. Fleming, as affording valuable materials for his magazine. 

 We understand the establishment at Flotbec well merits inspection, and we 

 recommend a visit there to our countrymen passing through Hamburgh. 



Thaer, M., of Moglin, in Prussia, a well known and justly celebrated prac- 

 tical Agriculturist, Author of numerous Works : Quelques eclaircisse- 

 mens, &c. Remarks on the Agricultural Statistics of the Baron de 

 Voght. Hamburgh. Pamph. 8vo. 



M. Thaer and the Baron de Voght are intimate friends, and the object 

 of the present pamphlet is to propose some improvements on the technical 

 phraseology adopted by the latter ; such as activity of the soil {thdtigkeit) 

 for power of the soil (erdvermb'gen), &c. 



Walter's Allgemeines Teutscher Gartenbuch, &c. Walter's German Gar- 

 dener, or Popular and Practical Instructions relative to the Laying out, 

 Management, and Culture of Gardens of Ornament, Orchards, and 

 Kitchen-gardens. Leipzic. 8vo, 3d edit. 3 pis. ojlor. 36 la: 



Italy. 



N. N., a Professor in the Academy of Bologna : L'art di riparare dai 

 Calori estivi le Abitazioni e le Persone. On the Art of preserving Houses 

 and Persons from the great Heats of Summer. Bologna. 8vo, pp. 50. 



Large and lofty apartments, so contrived as to admit, by internal openings, 

 of a continual circulation of air, and with few and small windows, so as to 

 exclude light and the sun ; thick walls and double roofs ; blue or purple 

 glass in the windows, as being less capable of penetration by heat 



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