82 Catalogue of Works, 8jc. 



The medicinal plants, and the modes of using them, are described and de- 

 tailed, and the various poisonous herbs and fungi indicated. The work must 

 be particularly useful to English residents at Florence, who take any interest 

 in country matters ; and such as are there and do not, lose no small share 

 ofenioyment. The author lectures both on agriculture and botany. His 

 son is one of the principal physicians, and has translated Sir Humphrey 

 Davy's Agricultural Chemistry, and other English works. Should any friend 

 to this Magazine at Florence have leisure, we entreat him to tollow the 

 example of°our " Brussels Reader" (p. 87.), and send us occasional notices 

 of what is going on. Are the improvements at the Palace Pitti finished ? 

 Has the farm managed by Sismondi, the charming hills of Pescia, or Nievole, 

 been visited, or the park at Rossore ? Many highly interesting and useful 

 notices mi^ht be sent us from beyond the Alps ; and we again entreat such 

 of our readers as are there, or such here as have friends on their travels, 

 or resident abroad, to try and do something for the cause in which we are 

 engaged. Let the consideration of serving us go for nothing; but surely 

 the gratification of entertaining (not to say instructing) thousands is worth 

 a little trouble. 



Savi Gaetano, professor of botany, and director of the botanic garden at 

 Pisa : Almanaco per i dilettanti di giardinaggio, &c. Almanack for the 

 Amateurs of Gardening, with some Agricultural Observations, by Hipp. 

 Pindemonte. Pisa, 12mo. 



This little work is divided into six parts : the first is a monthly kalendar 

 of work to be done ; the second, a continuation from the preceding year of 

 the history of the Apocyneag; third, history of the Liliacea;; fourth, his- 

 tory of the Irideae ; fifth, observations on the different races of roses, intro- 

 duced into commerce as new ; sixth, principles of botany, for the use of 

 gardeners ; and, seventh, agricultural dissertations, by Pindemonte. 



Art. V. — Notices of New Works in the Press, fyc. 



Icones et Descrijrtiones Filicum Rariorum, &c. Dr. Hooker and Dr. 

 Greville are engaged in preparing for publication a work, with numerous 

 figures, in folio, upon the New or Rare Species of Ferns, under the above 

 title. The engravings will be executed in the same style as those in De 

 Lessert's Icones Selectee, and Humboldt's Nova Genera ; and the descrip- 

 tions will be entirely in Latin. The first part is in a state of considerable 

 forwardness. (Breivstei-'s Edin. Joarn. Get. 1826, p. 377.) 



New Holland Plants. " So many beautiful plants from New Holland 

 have been lately introduced, the whole of which are the most desirable 

 plants for a greenhouse or conservatory, and many of them may be grown 

 in the open air, so as to be protected with a covering in winter, that Mr. 

 Sweet has it in contemplation to publish a periodical work, entirely on 

 New Holland plants, with figures and descriptions, and the best method of 

 cultivating each particular species ; so that ladies or gentlemen may select 

 from the work the plants that they most admire, and, at the same time, 

 mav be acquainted with the right method of cultivating them." 



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