448 Annates de la Societe d Horticulture de Paris. 



Paris. 3 vols. 8vo, with an Atlas of 65 pis. in 4to. 35 Jr. Re- 

 viewed by C. Bailly de Merlieux. 



M. Leclerc, whom we have the pleasure of reckoning 

 among the number of our correspondents, is a nephew of 

 the late Professor Thouin, and attached to the adminis- 

 tration of the Jardin du Roi. The papers of which this 

 work is composed were left him by his uncle, one of the 

 most enlightened and methodical writers on gardening, and 

 courteous and benevolent of men. To those who were not 

 personally acquainted with the professor, it may be sufficient 

 to refer to his eulogium pronounced by Professor Cuvier 

 (Gard. Mag., vol. i. p. 226.), and to his writings in the Annates 

 du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, As we intend to analyse M. 

 Leclerc's work at an early opportunity ourselves, we shall only 

 observe here, that it is favourably spoken of by M. Bailly, 

 and a long extract given from the chapter treating on the prin- 

 ciples of the naturalisation of plants. 



III. Miscellanies arid News. — Leaves used instead of dung 

 in making hotbeds. Auriculas, manured with soot after 

 flowering in spring, flowered again the succeeding autumn. 

 The Egyptian, or potato, onion has produced seeds in the bo- 

 tanic garden of Aisne, and young plants have been raised from 

 them. Mr. Brown, jun., of Stow's directions for preventing 

 mice from eating newly sown peas, extracted from the Gar- 

 dener's Magazine. 



The questions asked, how far smoke and coal gas are in- 

 jurious to plants; what is the cause of certain yellow blotches 

 like excrescences [doubtless, fungi], which have appeared on 

 the leaves of pear trees, have materially injured their growth, 

 and prevented them from bearing a crop of fruit, and how to 

 destroy the Coccus lanigera in hot-houses. 



Extracts are given from what passed at different meetings 

 of the Society from the 11th of June to the 12th of Septem- 

 ber. The situation for a garden for the Society was dis- 

 cussed on the 6th of July. On the 18th of July, M. du Petit- 

 Thouars presented several works on horticulture, but claimed 

 the reservation of them for a short time till he had terminated 

 a work which he is now printing, entitled Chronological Bio- 

 graphy of Gardeners. It was determined to publish the An- 

 nates of the Society monthly, in 8vo ; and on the 22d of 

 August, the Chevalier Soulange-Bodin was reelected general 

 secretary. M. Soulange-Bodin, as before noticed (p. 334.), 

 offered the sum of 4?00fr. to the person who should discover 

 the means of destroying the grub of the cockchaffer. A list of 

 new members is added. 



