460 Profitable Planter. — Planter's Guide. 



1 4. The Summer Bon Chretien Pear. " A valuable well known Autumn 

 Pear, the origin of which is lost in the darkness of antiquity. It has long 

 been cultivated all over Europe, for the sake of the size and the delicious 

 flavour of its fruit." 



15. The Malta Peach. " One of the very best of the melting peaches, 

 ripening about the end of August," and said to ripen well on a standard 

 tree in Normandy, " a climate so little different from our own, that it is to 

 be presumed this kind will be found to possess the same property in 

 England." ' . . 



16. The Washington Plum. Of uncertain origin, the parent tree being 

 a sucker in a garden at New York, in the end of the last century, from 

 whence plants were sent to R. Barclay, Esq., of Bury Hill, in 1819. " It is 

 certainly not surpassed in richness of flavour, beauty, and other good quali- 

 ties, by any. In flavour, it is fully equal to the Green Gage, and Coe's 

 Golden Drop ; and the beauty of its foliage, which is very remarkable, is 

 quite unlike the usual shabby aspect of a plum tree." Colour, a yellowish 

 green ; form like that of the Green Gage, but much larger. 



Mitchell, J., F.J.B.S. and M.N.A. [?], Eleven Years Foreman to Messrs. 

 Eames and Webb, Professional New Ground Workmen and. Land- 

 scape-Gardeners, and afterwards Steward of Stansted, in Sussex ; a man 

 of great experience, and highly spoken of by a correspondent on whom 

 we can rely : 



1. Dendrologia ; or, a Treatise of Forest Trees, with Evelyn's Sylva 

 t revised, corrected, and abridged. London. 8vo. 155. 



2. Sketches on Agriculture; or, Farmer's Remembrancer. London, 

 8vo. 12*. 



5. The Grazier's Estimater. London. Svo. 25. 6d. 



These works we shall perhaps analyse in future Numbers. In the mean 

 time, should Mr. Mitchell come to London,we shall be happy to make his 

 personal acquaintance. 



Pontey, Mr. William, Nurseryman and Landscape-Gardener at Hudders- 

 field ; a strong-minded man, of great experience as a practical planter : 

 The Profitable Planter, a Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Plant- 

 ing Forest Trees, in every Description of Soil and Situation. London. 

 Svo, plates, 4th edit. 10s. 6d. 

 A well known and justly esteemed work. It is some years since we had 



the pleasure of seeing its author ; we regret to hear that he is in bad 



health ; should he see this, we hope he will convince us that he is still able 



to write, by becoming one of our contributors. 



Steuart, Sir Henry, Bart., LL.D. F.R.S.E. &c. : The Planter's Guide ; 

 or, a Practical Essay on the best Method of giving immediate Effect to 

 Wood, by the Removal of large Trees and Underwood ; being an At- 

 tempt to place the Art on fixed Principles, and to apply it to general 

 Purposes, useful and ornamental ; chiefly intended for the Climate of 

 Scotland. Edinburgh. 8vo, 5 plates, pp.475. 18s. 



We have just received this work in time to say that it appears to be one 

 of great interest, both to the planter and landscape-gardener. In future 

 Numbers we shall analyse it in detail ; in the mean time, from a very slight 

 glance, we can see that it deserves a place in every country gentleman's 

 library, where it ought to be placed between the new edition of Evelyn's 

 Sylva, by Mitchell, just published by Baldwin and Co., and Price's Essays 

 on the Picturesque. Gardeners may safely speak of it to their employers, j 



