578 Lindley's First Principles of Botany. 



of a Walk. The object of this plate is to assist gardeners in arranging 

 trees and shrubs, according to the Natural System, in shrubberies or plea- 

 sure-grounds. Every tree and shrub may be here said to be laid down to 

 a scale according to the height it will grow, and the breadth it will occupy, 

 on an average of circumstances. The evergreen proportion of each order 

 is distinctly marked, as are those plants which are climbers, twiners, trailers, 

 or creepers. A list of the orders and tribes, containing all the trees or 

 shrubs that will endure the open air in Great Britain, is given ; the number 

 of species (their names can be got from the Hortus Britannicus), classed 

 according to their heights, and each class arranged as deciduous and ever- 

 green. The climbers, twiners, trailers, and creepers are also classed by them- 

 selves. 



III. and IV. Design for laying out 100 Acres as a Villa Residence. By 

 Joshua Major, Landscape-Gardener, Knowstrop, near Leeds. The first of 

 these plates is the working plan of a very ingeniously devised design in the 

 modern style of landscape-gardening. The second is a vertical profile, 

 showing the general effect. Both plans well deserve the study of the 

 practical gardener and the amateur. For the conditions on which this 

 work will be published, and other particulars, we refer to the advertising 

 sheet. We have risked the publication on our own account, and do not 

 intend advertising it any where, except in this Magazine and that of Na- 

 tural History. 



Lindley, John, F.R.S. L.S. and G.S., &c, Professor of Botany in' the Uni- 

 versity of London : An Outline of the First Principles of Botany. 

 London. 18mo, pp. 106. 3s. 



The elements of botany are here laid down in 543 propositions, which 

 form the basis of Mr. Lindley's lectures in the University of London. " No 

 person can be considered a botanist who is unacquainted with the nature 

 of the evidence upon which such of these propositions as are indisputable 

 are founded ; or by which it is supposed that others which are less certain 

 can be disproved. Acquiring this kind of knowledge constitutes the study 

 of vegetable comparative anatomy, or organography; a curious and inte- 

 resting subject, upon which systematic botany entirely depends." To enable 

 the reader to become acquainted with " the evidence," he is referred to 

 Decandolle's Organographie Vegetale, from which chiefly the " outline " is 

 abridged, or to Link's Elementa Philosophic; Botanicce. This is a most 

 excellent little work, which every gardener ought to purchase and study as 

 a preparation for Professor Lindley's Introduction to the Jussieuean System, 

 just published at 12s. The only objection we have to " An Outline" is 

 the price, which ought not to have exceeded Is. 



Loudon's Hortus Britannicus : A Catalogue of all the Plants indigenous, 

 cultivated in, or introduced to Britain. Part I. The Linnean Arrange- 

 ment, in which nearly 30,000 Species are enumerated, with the Syste- 

 matic Name and Authority, Accentuation, Derivation of Generic Names, 

 literal English of Specific Names, Synonymes Systematic and English of 

 both Genera and Species, Habit, Habitation in the Garden, indigenous 

 -Habitation, popular Character, Height, Time of flowering, Colour of the 

 Flower, Mode of Propagation, Soil, Native Country, Year of Introduc- 

 tion, and Reference to Figures ; preceded by an Introduction to the 

 Linnean System. Part II. The Jussieuean Arrangement, of nearly 4000 

 Genera, with an Introduction to the Natural System, and a General De- 

 scription and History of each Order. Edited by J. C. Loudon, F.L., H., 

 G., and Z.S. London. 8vo. 1/. Is. 



Having reviewed a work bearing the above title in our First Volume 

 (p. 434.), it may here be necessary to state the reason why that work never 

 appeared. It is simply this, that, in preparing the appendix for it, it was 



