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merit and the people are alike open to every amelioration — open to re- 

 ceive, and free to enjoy. In Europe it is difficult to set any thing up with- 

 out first knocking something down; in America there is nothing to knock 

 down but trees, and hence the fruits of anew idea will be reaped, from one 

 end of the United States to the other, before the seeds can be sown in a 

 province of Old Spain, or one of the beautiful little kingdoms of Italy. 



Prince, William, C. M. H. S., Member of various Societies in Europe and 

 America, and Proprietor of the Linnean Botanic Garden, Flushing, Long- 

 Island, near New York : Catalogue of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, 

 Flowering Shrubs, Plants and Roots, American Indigenous Trees, &c. 

 N. Y. 12mo. pp. 60. 



We have already, (p. 90.), given a short account of the collection, the 

 names and prices of which are here to be found in detail. The best Euro- 

 pean nurseryman's catalogue which we have ever seen, is that of Audibert, 

 Marchand grainetier et pepinieriste, a Tonelle, pres Tarascon, in the south 

 of France, 1817. 4to. and 8vo. pp. 46. There is no good British nursery 

 catalogue. One by Page of Southampton is on an excellent plan as far as 

 respects trees, shrubs, and house-plants ; but it contains so many species not 

 to be found in any nursery, and is so meagre in its details of fruit trees and 

 culinary vegetables, that as a catalogue to order plants from, it is of little or 

 no use. A proper nursery catalogue is a desideratum ; but it would not be 

 proper to attempt it till after the H.S. have settled the names of hardy fruits. 

 It is but justice to Mr. Prince, to state, that his production seems perfectly 

 well calculated for the purpose for which it is intended. Some pains have 

 been taken to give the French and German, as well as the English and Lin- 

 nean names of various articles, which is highly commendable. 



Thorium, G. and Son, Seedsmen and Florists, New York : Catalogue of 

 Kitchen Garden, Herb, Flower, Tree, and Grass Seeds, Bulbous Flower 

 Roots, Gardening Agricultural and Botanical Books, Garden Tools, &c. 

 With an Appendix, containing a short Treatise on the Cultivation of 

 Bulbous Flower-roots, together with a variety of useful Agriculttiral and 

 Horticultural Information, New York. 1827. 12mo. pp. 101. 



An " advertisement," states that this " seed store" was opened in 1804. 

 " with a stock of only 15 dollars, including the whole assortment of seeds." 

 After various struggles, and having " stood the attacks of several powerful 

 opponents, the last, Mr. Cobbett, of political memory," it is now " the most 

 extensive establishment of the kind in America." 



The Catalogue of books enumerates about 60 works, chiefly British ; it 

 might be advantageously increased, and there ought certainly to be included 

 the Bon Jardinier, L'Horticulteur Francais, the Verstandigen Gartners, and 

 a few others of France and Germany. Can and will Messrs. Thorburn set 

 apart a reading-room for the perusal of their books at a moderate rate ? 

 Or will they, Mr. Prince, and the N. Y. H. S. establish a New York Agri- 

 cultural Library, such as we have suggested, (p. 248.) for London and Edin- 

 burgh ? We have written to Mr. Prince on the subject, and we wait his 

 answer ; but we have no doubt of the result. Mr. Prince and Mr. Soulange 

 Bodin are much more likely to exceed than fall short of our expectations. 



Art. IV. Literary Notice. 

 Some Account of the Science of Botany ; being the Substance of an 

 Introductory Lecture delivered in the Theatre of the Royal Institution of 

 Great Britain, by John Frost, F.A.S. and L.S., of Emmanuel College, 

 Cambridge, &c. Nearly ready. 



