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REVIEWS. 



Art. I. Catalogue of Works on Gardening, Agriculture, Botany, 

 Rural Architecture, &;c., lately published, tvith some Account 

 of those considered the most interesting. 



Don, George, F.L.S. : A General System of Gardening and 

 Botany, containing a complete Enumeration and Descrip- 

 tion of all Plants hitherto known ; with their Generic and 

 Specific Characters, Places of Growth, Time of Flowering, 

 the Manner in which they are cultivated, and their Uses in 

 Medicine and Domestic Economy; preceded by an Intro- 

 duction to the Linnsean and Natural Systems, and a Glos- 

 sary of the Terms used. Founded upon Miller's Gardener's 

 Dictionary, and arranged according to the Natural System. 

 In 4 quarto volumes. Vol. II. 875 pages, with numerous 

 Woodcuts, 31. 12s.; or in monthly Parts, 6s. each. Lon- 

 don, 1832. 



In p. 203. of our current volume we have sketched the 

 scope and plan of this work, and noticed the first volume of 

 it: we have now (Nov. 19.) to announce the appearance of 

 the second volume, just published. Our botanical and flori- 

 cultural readers who have not already enabled themselves to 

 judge of the work by procuring the first volume, or parts of 

 it, will oblige us by referring to our remarks on p. 203, 204-., 

 as their doing this will render unnecessary our again indicating 

 its plan and scope: but, indeed, the full title above given, 

 attentively perused, will alone suffice to do this, if accom- 

 panied by one little objection, previously expressed by us on 

 p. 204k , that, as the " gardening " notices in the work only 

 extend to directions for cultivating, propagating, and dispos- 

 ing in the garden the genera and species of plants described, 

 the work does not fully answer to one part of its title, that of 

 its being " a general system of gardening." With this slight 

 general objection, we proceed to notice very briefly the second 

 volume. 



The second volume commences with the extensive second 

 subclass Calyciflorae, and describes thirty-nine natural orders 

 included in this subclass ; and the remainder belonging to it 

 will form the initial part of the third volume. The vast order 

 Leguminosae occupies in the present volume 385 pages, and 

 so supplies descriptions of a comparatively endless number of 



