VI 8 Doyle'' s Hints on Emigration. 



Anon. : The Cape of Good Hope Literary Gazette. Cape 

 Town. 4to. In periodical Numbers. 205. per annum. 



A miscellany designed to supply intellectual gratification to 

 the readers of Southern Africa. No. 13., published June J. 

 1831 ; and No. 14., published June 29. 1831, have been sent 

 us. Each contains 12 quarto pages of matter, disposed in 

 triple columns; and a portion of this space is occupied by ori- 

 ginal contributions on various topics, general and local, enter- 

 taining and instructive. Then follow " critical notices" of 

 new publications, and " extracts literary, scientific, and mis- 

 cellaneous." The work appears to be well conducted. 



Mr. Bowie, our valued correspondent, in No. 13. contributes 

 li a list of some of the most conspicuous indigenous plants 

 blossoming in the month of June, at Wynberg and its vicinity," 

 in which the names of nearly 100 species appear; and Mr. 

 Bowie, in his introductory remarks, states that these, " toge- 

 ther with 200 species more, may be observed in flower in a 

 walk of two or three hours," and that all these are " only a 

 part of the winter embellishments of the vegetable kingdom in 

 this part of the world." No. 14. contains a similar list for 

 July, in which the species, although almost as numerous, are 

 all distinct from those in the June list. Both lists are intro- 

 duced by a few sensible remarks; and in the July one there is 

 this note under Hesperantha, where H. cinnamomea, falcata, 

 and pilosa are the species mentioned ; but the note is appended 

 to the generic name, and is probably meant to relate to every 

 species of the genus, rather than to any particular one: — Hes- 

 perantha, evening flower; Dutch, Avondbloem; which emits 

 a most delicious fragrance, and, in the neighbourhood of Cape 

 Town, is the violet, the cowslip, and, the primrose, the har- 

 binger of spring in Southern Africa. Hence a bunch of these 

 beautiful flowers is carried in triumph into the town. That 

 the inhabitants are not destitute of the love of flowers, is quite 

 evident from the numerous groups botanisingon our mountains, 

 awaiting the appearance of, and eagerly plucking this pretty 

 evening flower." In the lists are the names of many species 

 of plants existing in our collections. In the numbers before 

 us are notices of the South African Literary Society, South 

 African Institution, South African Library, and the Graham's 

 Town Library ; and there seems much interest prevailing on 

 literary subjects in the colony. 



Doyle, Martin, Author of Hints to small Holders, &c. : 

 Hints on Emigration to Upper Canada; especially addressed 

 to the Middle and Lower Classes of Great Britain and 



