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Russian and West Indian Books. 



Zigra, J. H., Member of the Imperial Academy and Economical Society 

 of Petersburgh : Nordischer Blumenfreund. The Florist of the North. 

 Riga. 8vo, 1 pi. 



West Indies. 



La Sagra, Don Ramon de, Professor of Natural History in the Universitj' of 

 Cuba : Informe sobre el Estado actual de Jardin y de la Catedra de Bo- 

 tanica aplicada a la Agricultura, &c. Information respecting the pre- 

 sent State of the Garden, and the Professorship of Botany applied to 

 Agriculture. Havanna. 8vo, pp. 23. 



Professor Ramon de la Sagra is assembling all the indigenous plants of 

 Cuba, besides a number of rare plants of other countries, i» his garden ; 

 and he invites the directors of the principal botanic gardens of Europe to 

 make exchanges with him. He proposes also to translate Decandolle's 

 Essai sur les Proprietes Medicates des Plantes into Spanish, for the benefit of 

 the island. 



Art. IV. Literary Notices. 



A Tabular Gardener's Calendar will be ready in a few days for publica- 

 tion, to be called the Gardener's Remembrancer, and Apiarian's Monthly 

 Calendar. It will display, at one view, the work required to be done in the 

 flower-garden, shrubbery, kitchen, and fruit-garden, green-house, nursery, 

 &c. On the back of the sheet will be a Vegetable and Seed Directory, 

 denoting the proper times for depositing, and how to sow and manage the 

 various crops, &c. It will, in fact, be clear and concise, instructions on every 

 point required in gardening, and the management of bees. Ridgeway. [This 

 is rather a happy idea, and, if judiciously realised, will be well received.] 



Universal History of Plants. — Since this Magazine was commenced, we 

 have received various applications and hints respecting a new edition, in 

 8vo, of Miller's Dictionary. In allusion to some of these suggestions, we 

 have (p. 209.) expressed our hope that this Dictionary will never again 



