720 German mid Swedish Books. 



GERMANY AND SWEDEN. 



Antoine, F., Court Gardener in the Royal and Imperia 

 Paradise Garden at Vienna: Abbildung von 51 Pfirsich 

 Sorten nach der Natur. Figures from Nature of 51 Sorts 

 of Peaches. Vienna, 1816—1821. 



This is an abridgment, which costs at Vienna about 30s., 

 of a work in folio by the same author which costs more than 

 three times the money. The figures are remarkably well 

 executed ; and the descriptions, as we are informed by M. 

 Rauch, who lent us the work, and by Mr. Thompson, the 

 author of the Horticultural Society's Fruit Catalogue, judici- 

 ous and correct. We have no very high idea of the utility of 

 figuring such fruits as the peach, melon, strawberry, goose- 

 berry, &c, which are of short duration ; constantly undergoing 

 alteration by the introduction of new sorts raised from seed ; 

 and, in consequence, the fashionable sorts of which are con- 

 tinually changing. However, they are certainly better worth 

 figuring than hybrid pelargoniums and florist's flowers; and 

 therefore let the work pass. 



Wenstrom, John Peter : Handbok i Blomsterkulturen for 

 Fruntimmer. 8vo, 293 pages. Stockholm, 1831. 



This work treats of 450 species of blooming plants, none, 

 or but few, of them rare in English collections ; but all of 

 them showily flowered, and well suited to the decoration of 

 flower-gardens. They are assorted into separate alphabetic 

 lists, under the classes of annuals, perennials, bulbous and 

 tuberous rooted plants, flowering shrubs, and plants for the 

 oi'angery or green-house. Under each species is given a 

 short history, usually of but a few lines, but sometimes extend- 

 ing to half a page, or even a whole one. This history imparts 

 the same kind of information as is supplied in our Hortus Britan- 

 nicus, but in a fuller manner : it is terminated by an explanation 

 of the generic name ; and the history or description is pre- 

 ceded by the French and Swedish names of the plant, which 

 follow the botanical sytematic one. The work is closed with 

 an index of the botanical names, a second of the French ones, 

 and a third of the Swedish ones. It is a convenient and useful 

 manual, for those who are familiar with the language in 

 which it is written, and who are desirous to learn, in a ready 

 manner, what are the fittest plants to procure for effecting 

 any particular instance of decoration they may desire. 



