29 4 Literary Notices. 



not adding the French names is, that they are too variable and too uncer- 

 tain ; but we are informed that they may be found in the second edition, 

 of which some copies remain at 2frs. 50 cents. Such a catalogue as the 

 last will be useful to English residents in France ; this Latin one will be of 

 use to botanists. The notes, to which allusion is made in the titlepage, 

 are very few, and chiefly technical descriptions. The number of natural 

 orders illustrated is 124, and the number of species, estimating from an 

 average of five pages, appears to be 9500, or perhaps 10,000. The num- 

 ber of natural orders which can be illustrated by British collections, as 

 enumerated in our Hortus Britannicus, amounts to 219, and the number of 

 species, exclusive of Cryptogamia, to 25,902. Neither the genera nor 

 species are numbered, nor is there a table given of the arrangement ; the 

 most valuable parts of the Catalogue are the references to figures and the 

 synonymes. 



Journal de la Societe oV Agronomie pratique (auquel s'est reuni Le Journal 

 des Jardins). Aout, 1829. Paris. In 8vo Numbers, monthly. 10 .firs. 

 per annum. 



We shall give what may be worthy of notice in this work, and also in 

 the Journal des Jardins, both before us, as soon as we can find room. In 

 the Journal d 1 Agronomic for August, 1829, we are informed that M. Noi- 

 sette, the nurseryman, is giving a course of lectures on dendrology to the 

 members of the Society, and to all who choose to attend, every Sunday 

 morning at seven o'clock. The order he follows, in treating of the trees, 

 is that of the natural system, and he began with itosaceae, as being the 

 richest in fruits. 



Annates de VInstitut Horticole de Fromont. In 8vo Numbers, monthly. 



The institution at Fromont for practical gardeners was opened on the 

 14th of May, 1829, and eleven numbers of the Annates have since been 

 published. The Chevalier Soulange Bodin, his gardeners, pupils, and 

 workmen, the evening before the opening of the Institution, assisted at a 

 solemn mass got up in the parish church with reference to this occasion. 

 A great many horticulturists arrived from the capital to partake of the fete 

 given at the chateau of Fromont, and to deliver speeches on the importance 

 of horticulture, and the advantages which it will derive from the institution 

 of Fromont. These speeches occupy nearly the whole of the second 

 livraison, and are sufficiently amusing by being so thoroughly French. 



Art. III. Literary Notices. 



Mr. Lindley, we understand, has been for some time past occupied 

 with an Introduction to the Natural System of Botany. This work, when 

 published, will be most invaluable for gardeners. The extraordinary suc- 

 cess which Mr. Lindley had in teaching this system last summer at the Lon- 

 don University, has converted to it some of the most obdurate Linneans ; 

 and those are now the greatest advocates of the natural system, who, fifteen 

 months ago, prophesied a complete failure if this mode were attempted to 

 be taught in the university. 



A Pamphlet on Planting is in the press at Perth, which a friend of ours 

 in that quarter informs us will contain some curious and interesting matter. 



A second edition of Feltorfs Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, 

 greatly enlarged, is about to appear. A copy has been sent by our excel- 

 lent and much esteemed friend the author, which we have sent to be 

 reviewed to a quarter from which, if we are not mistaken, some new light 

 will be thrown on the history of one of our very first gardening authors, 

 certainly in landscape-gardening the very first. 



