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any we have yet 

 seen, to promote 

 the comfort of the 

 occupiers, improve 

 their habits, culti- 

 vate the taste of 

 the architectural 

 tradesmen of the 

 country, and be 

 ornaments to the 

 general scenery. In 

 our next Number we shall give some account of a French work on cottage 

 architecture, that of Morel Vind^, which affords one of the best examples 

 we are acquainted with of that care in the composition of the plan, with 

 reference to the wants of the inhabitants, in which we find our English 

 architects so very deficient. 



France. 



Soulange Bodin, le Chevalier, Proprietor of Fromont, and an extensive 

 Propagator of the more rare exotic Trees and Shrubs there, an active 

 and enthusiastic Horticulturist, and a most amiable and agreeable man : 

 Annales de I'lnstitut Horticole^de Fromont. Paris. 8vo monthly. Ire 

 Livr. April. 



In the introduction the author informs us that he had hitherto limited 

 himself to the collection and propagation of rare and beautiful plants ; but 

 that he now intends to combine at Fromont a practical school for the 

 moral and professional education of gardeners. This school or institution, 

 L'lnstitut Horticole de Fromont, will be opened on the 1st of May, 1829 ; 

 and in the following spring the lectures to the students, Candidats d Horticul- 

 hire, will commence. These candidates, or pupils, will be examined from 

 time to time, and receive prizes : and at the end of three years they will be 

 dismissed, with a written character, both professional and moral. A short 

 history, biography, and character of each candidate will also be published in 

 the Annales, for future references either in favour of the individual^ or 

 to prove his degeneracy or improvement. The Amiales will consist of 

 three parts : — 1. Professional studies ; 2. News, foreign and domestic; and 

 Z. Descriptions, culture, and uses of rare and new plants. The first article 

 in the present number, after the introduction, is a description of the garden 

 of Fromont, which we shall here pass over, as we intend to notice it from 

 our own inspection in September last (Vol. II. p. 222.) : the second is 

 on the necessity of a statistical account of French horticulture, a labour 

 which would certainly be of considerable use ; since the first step to 

 advancement is to know the precise position in which we stand. The Che- 

 valier Masclet, we understand, has a similar project in view for the agricul- 

 ture of France, and we heartily wish both of them, and the institution at 

 Fromont, every success which their proprietors can desire. 



FecleU E., ancien Eleve de I'Ecole Normale, &c. : Trait^ de la Chaleur, 

 et de ses Applications aux Arts et aux Manufactures. Paris. 2 vols. 

 8vo, avec atlas 4to. 



" The first volume details, 1. the physical theory of heat; 2. the theory 

 of combustion and combustibles ; 3. the theory of the movements of 

 heated air ; 4. the theory of chimneys. The second volume contains the 

 application of the above : l. vaporisation; 2. distillation; 3. evaporation ; 

 4. drying; 5. heating of elastic fluids; 6. heating of liquids; 7. heating of 

 solid bodies ; 8. cooling. The author has made very many and ingenious 

 experiments, and, it is said, has discovered an error in the numerical values 

 of certain algebraic terms hitherto employed by writers on heat." {For. 

 Quar. Rev., April, 1829.) 



