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and agreeable flavour, this pear has become a universal favourite, and de- 

 servedly. It was raised in Flanders by a M. Hardenpont, and passes in this 

 country under different names, as Colmar ^pineux, Colmar gris, Dit Precel, 

 Chapman's, &c. Wood fine clear yellow brown, seldom cankered ; leaves 

 small, oval, tapering to both ends j flowers middle-sized ; fruit middle-sized, 

 obconical, flattened next the eye; in season from December to February. 



Flora Medica : containing Botanical Descriptions, Natural History, Che- 

 mical Properties and Analysis, Medical Properties and Uses, &c. &c. 

 The number of the different Species of the Officinal Plants, comprised 

 in the latest Editions of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Pharmaco- 

 poeias. A List of the Indigenous Plants possessing Medicinal Properties, 

 not included therein ; a separate List of the Poisonous Plants ; an Ex- 

 planation of the Classes and Orders of the Sexual System of Linnaeus 

 illustrated with coloured Delineations ; a copious List of Botanical Terms 

 and Definitions ; a Tabular Index, showing at one view, the Generic 

 and Specific Name of each Plant, the Class and Order to which it belongs 

 in the Sexual System of Linnaeus, the Natural Order of Linnaeus and 

 Jussieu, its Medicinal Properties, and the Volume and Page in which the 

 Description is given. Edited by a Member of the London College of 

 Physicians, F.L.S., and assisted by several Members of a Botanical So- 

 ciety. London. 8vo. To be continued Monthly, and completed in 

 twenty-eight Numbers. 2s. 6d. Nos, I. to XVII. 



The seventeenth number of this work, now before us, contains .Rosa 

 centifolia and gallica, Pimpinella .^nisum, Cuminum Cyminum, Z/'lmus 

 campestris, and Eugenia caryophyllata. As we have regularly followed 

 Stephenson and Churchill's Medical Botanj/, and selected from it all that 

 we think interesting to gardeners and general readers, we have not thought 

 it necessary to give detailed notices of the numbers of the present work as 

 they have appeared. Of the merits of either, in a medical point of view, 

 we do not profess ourselves competent to judge. 



Fleming's British Farmer^ s Magazine, exclusively devoted to Agriculture 

 and Rural Affairs. In 8vo Numbers, quarterly. As. 



Nos. IX. and X.for November, 1828, and February/, 1829. 



We are happy to find this work improving, as evinced by the introduction 

 of scientific papers, hitherto rare in works got up for the English farmer. 



Oil the Vegetable Economy of Agricultural Plants. — Every practical agri- 

 culturist ought to possess a knowledge of the principles of botany, which 

 furnish him with " a key to the simple, yet admirable, system of order, 

 which nature has observed in all her works — instructs him in many truths 

 which are important in the economy of a farm ; and it is gratifying to learn 

 that our intelligent farmers are beginning to perceive, and to appreciate, the 

 real value of scientific acquirements, which will not only be a means of cor- 

 recting their views of rural concerns, but will also enable them to overcome 

 many prejudices concerning things with which they are but imperfectly ac- 

 quainted." 



The Lincolnshire Agricultural Society held a meeting on the 27th of Au- 

 gust, and among other premiums awarded the following. " To William 

 Jacklin (lived with J. S. Bennett, of Appleby, and his father-in-law, 25 

 years ; had 24 children, and brought up 18) : for the labourer in husbandry 

 who shall have brought up the largest family without parochial relief, charac- 

 ter being particularly attended to ; 10 guineas. To William Sentence, of 

 Barrowby (had 17 children, and 16 living): for the second labourer in hus- 

 bandry who shall have brought up the largest family without parochial re- 

 lief, character being particular!}' attended to ; 5 guineas." 



The Derbyshire Agricultural Society, at their meeting of October 6., gave 

 the two following premiums : — "For the labouring husbandman, of good 



