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of her life. The object of the work is to place botanical subjects in an attrac- 

 tive form, and to attach to them useful and acccurate information. The first 

 Number contains illustrations of spring, by figures of Crocus, Hepatica, 

 jSfcilla, iVarcissus, Erythronium, Adonis, Primula, and Sanguinaria ; the let- 

 ter-press containing lists of other spring-flowering species of the same genera. 

 Number II. illustrates summer by Pssonia, Phlox,. Jnemone, Pulmonaria, 

 Campanula. Oenothera, Clarkz'a, and Potentilla, with lists of other summer- 

 flowering species. Number III. represents autumn by Eschscholtzfa, Cata- 

 nanche, Coreopsis, Georgi?z«, Rudbeck«'«, Scabiosa, LobehVz, and ^'ster, with 

 lists as before. These are all the Numbers that are published. The figures 

 are beautifully drawn, and perhaps, on the whole, not badly coloured; 

 though we must say, that, considering the size of the figures, we expected 

 something better. The artist might take a hint from the Botanic Garden, 

 the Botanical Register, and Horticultural Transactions, comparing those 

 plants figured in the three works ; for example, Crocus with the group in the 

 Trans. Hort. Soc. (Gard. Mag., Vol. V. p. 516.), Clarkk pulchella with that 

 plant in the Botanic Garden, and Eschscholtzia with that of the Botanic Re- 

 gister. The letter-press is every thing that such a work requires ; and it 

 gives us pleasure to know that the work has a good sale. 



The Florists Guide and Cultivator's Directory, &c. By Robert Sweet, 

 F.L.S. &c. In 8vo Numbers, monthly. 3s. coloured ; 2s. plain. 



N~o. XXVIII. for October, contains 

 109 to 112. — Titian Tulip. — Painted Lady Anemone-flowered Georgina. 

 (fig. 18.) " The present handsome variety belongs to a new tribe, known 

 by the name of Anemone-flowered 

 amongst cultivators, the flowers having 

 their centre composed of narrow radiated 

 florets, like the small petals hi the centre 

 of the double anemone; we suppose 

 they must have first originated by the 

 common double being mixed with one 

 known by the name of astrantiasflora, 

 which would doubtless produce the pre- 

 sent curious varieties. This race, from 

 its great dissimilarity to the common 

 double type, will make a very pleasing 

 variety, and will doubtless be in general 

 cultivation; grown amongst the other 

 double sorts, we see in some of the varie- 

 ties a tendency to produce large rays, in- 

 termixed with the smaller ones, some so 

 much so, that they would scarcely be re- 

 cognised as belonging to the tribe. They require precisely the same sort of 

 treatment as the other double sorts ; to be brought forward a little in pots in 

 a frame, or in the hot-house or green-house, if convenient, and to be planted 

 in the open ground as soon as possible, when there is no more apprehension 

 of frost for the season ; if planted in the open ground at once, without being 

 brought forward at all by artificial heat, they will be much hardier, and may 

 be planted out earlier, as the slight frosts will not injure them. We have 

 seen them succeed quite well when planted out the latter end of March, or 

 beginning of April, and have even known them stand the whole winter in 

 the open ground without protection, but the winter was that season very 

 mild ; so that it is safest to take up the roots, and to keep them dry and out 

 of the reach of frost till the following spring, when they may be increased 

 by dividing the roots ; but a part of the crown must be left to each root, or 

 they will not produce a shoot. New varieties may be raised from seed to 

 an endless extent, and superior ones may be obtained by taking pains in 



