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132. Hughes's Golden Pippin Apple. " Very different from the old 

 Golden Pippin, and in many respects inferior to that variety (as what is 

 not ?), this deserves to rank among the most useful and beautiful table- 

 fruits of England. It is remarkable for the neatness of its appearance, its 

 rich golden hue (in which it surpasses its rival), and for the great produc- 

 tiveness and perfect health of the trees. It bears most abundantly grafted 

 upon the common English Paradise stock, which is the Doucin stock of the 

 French, and perfectly different, both in appearance and in effect, from the 

 real Paradise of Holland and France." 



Woollard, William, Florist, Ipswich : A Catalogue of Ranunculuses grown 

 and sold, 1830. Ipswich. On one sheet, to be sent by post. 6d. 



Mr. Wooliard's collection is said to be equal to any one in England : it 

 is well known in Suffolk, and deserves the attention of florists in every part 

 of Britain. This catalogue is very well drawn up. Thirty shades of colour, 

 indicated by letters, are employed to describe the sorts, and the prices are 

 added as in Mr.- Tyso's catalogue. The highest-priced flower is the Abbe 

 St. Andre (dark), 50s. The Rose Incomparable (white-edged), 4:0s. ; the 

 Quixos (purple), 30s. : there are scores at every price between these sums 

 and Is. a root, at which price there are above a hundred. 



Billington, William, Author of Facts, Hints, &c. on Plantations (p. 446.), 

 8vo, 1825 : Facts, Observations, &c, being an Exposure of the Misre- 

 presentations of the Author's Treatise on Planting, contained in Mr. 

 Withers's Letters to Sir Walter Scott, Bart, and to Sir Henry Steuart, 

 Bart. ; with Remarks on Sir Walter Scott's Essay on Planting, and on 

 certain Parts of Sir Henry Steuart's Planter's Guide; also, Observations 

 on the Mode adopted in the Royal Forests of raising Timber for future 

 Navies, and on the Quality of the Timber, as affected by the Trenching 

 and Manuring System, or the more common Method ; with some addi- 

 tional Information, Hints, &c. Shrewsbury. 8vo. 1830. 2s. 6d. 



Mr. Billington is an excellent practical planter ; and we highly approve 

 of his ideas for "shortening" the side branches, as he terms it; " fore- 

 shortening," as it is denominated by Blaikie in his Tract on Hedgerow 

 Timber, 12mo. 1819; " cutting-in," by Withers; and " terminal pruning," 

 by Sir Henry Steuart. His ideas on thinning are also of the first order ; 

 and no less so his opinion on the important uses of leaves and of light in 

 the produce of timber : but what he has said on all these subjects is enve- 

 loped in such a mass of superfluous verbiage, that it is hid like a few grains 

 of wheat in a bushel of chaff. We should wish to see such a valuable 

 practical man actively employed as a forester ; for, we fear, he is not likely 

 to do much good, either to himself or others, with his pen. He seems to 

 think that there is a sort of tacit conspiracy on the part of Sir Henry 

 Steuart, Mr. Withers, and others, to, what he calls, "keep him down : " an 

 idea so absurd as not to require refuting. He also seems to think that Sir 

 Henry, and also ourselves, do not much like him, because he is not a Scotch- 

 man. He says, " Probably Mr. Loudon had not seen my work when he 

 wrote," &c. &c. respecting pruning. We can tell our worthy friend, that 

 a Scotchman, an Englishman, and an Irishman, are exactly the same in our 

 eyes ; and the passage on pruning, quoted by Sir Henry, was written and 

 published in 1806 : of course, we could not then have seen Mr. Billington's 

 work published in 1825. But, lest Mr. Billington should think that we are 

 not friendly to him, we shall send the pamphlet to the same gentleman who 

 reviewed his large work, and conclude this introduction by expressing a 

 hope that the Arboricultural Society of Dublin, or some patriotic indivi- 

 dual, will speedily call Mr. Billington into active employment. 



