Catalogue of Works on Gardening, Agriculture, fyc. 449 



- IV. Bulletin Bibliographique. — The titles of ten works are 

 given, some of which have already appeared, and the remain- 

 der are now recorded in our catalogue. 



We are highly gratified to find that this Society may now 

 be considered as firmly established, and as likely to go on and 

 prosper. It will form one more point of union between the 

 two countries, and the more of these points the better for 

 the improvement and happiness of society. 



The more intimately the British and French people know 

 each other, the greater will be their mutual confidence and 

 esteem, and the greater will be the moral, political, and general 

 improvements of each nation. It is acknowledged by those who 

 are much better able to judge than we are, that at least 

 the manners of the people of England would be improved, 

 by the adoption of various practices from the French ; and the 

 French people, who in reality are more liberal than we are, 

 readily allow that they may profit in various ways by imitat- 

 ing the English. They are thus profiting, and so are we by 

 imitating them to a certain extent. It is acknowledged that the 

 lower and middling classes of the people of Paris, and other 

 large towns in France, have a very different opinion of the 

 English from what they had during the late war; and we have 

 heard it asserted by one of the first practical engineers of 

 France, that he believed, if the two countries should remain 

 another fifteen years at peace with each other, such would be 

 the mutual esteem and the mutual commercial advantages, and 

 such, in short, the power of public opinion, .that it would be 

 impossible for the rulers of the two countries to engage the 

 inhabitants in a mutual war. It is gratifying to find that even 

 such ideas are entertained, whether they should ever be 

 realised or not ; and it is evidently proper to encourage and 

 disseminate them. We repeat, therefore, that we rejoice in 

 the establishment and prosperity of the Paris Horticultural 

 Society, with reference to such a result. 



Art. III. Catalogue of Works on Gardening, Agricidture, Botany, 

 Rural Architecture, 8$ c, published since December last, with some 

 Account of those considered the most interesting. 



Britain. 



Curtis' 's Botanical Magazine, or Flower- Garden displayed; New .Series. 

 Edited by Dr. Hooker. In 8vo Numbers. 5s. 6d. coloured ; 3,?. plain. 



JVo. XIII. for January, contains 

 2791 to 2797. — Adansonia digitata; Bombacese. A tree of Senegal, 

 Egypt, and Abyssinia, of moderate elevation ; but whose trunk is from 

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