352 Floricultural Cabinet. 



(Vol. VII. p. 601.), of the first and eldest of our children in this 

 way ; or suckers, as some might call them, — certainly, not 

 offsets. Our endeavour shall be to continue to render our 

 own work, what we are confident it has hitherto been, equal, 

 if not superior, to the whole of them put together. If any 

 reader of these works, who compares them with the Gar- 

 dene}-'s Magazine^ thinks otherwise, we shall be extremely 

 obliged to him to say so, and to point out in what he thinks 

 we are deficient. 



Harrison, Joseph, Conductor : The Floricultural Cabinet, and 

 Florists' Magazine. In monthly Numbers, at 6d. each. 

 No. 1. March, 1833. 8vo, 24 pages, and two coloured 

 prints. London, Whittaker. 



This is the cheapest book on floriculture which has yet 

 been published. One of the prints is a coloured lithograph of 

 Levick's Commander in chief georgina, on which the con- 

 ductor remarks, it " gives a very correct representation of its 

 striped crimson flowers : but the plant, in addition, produces 

 entire flowers of a rich velvet hue, and others of a fine light 

 scarlet; the whole making a very striking and highly beautiful 

 appearance." The second print exhibits four coloured very 

 well executed woodcuts of the following plants : Veronica 

 fruticulosa; V. saxatilis, less faithfully portrayed in its leaves 

 and pubescence than it should be; Lobeh'a speciosa, and 

 i^esperis speciosa : these are engraved by O. Jewitt. We 

 have very rarely seen the pubescence of plants represented to 

 our satisfaction in woodcuts. 



The information supplied in the number is useful, and well 

 worth the money. 



Williams, Charles (Author of " Art in Nature, and Science 

 anticipated"): The Vegetable World. 12mo, 218 pages, 

 with an engraved Frontispiece, exhibiting, in six compart- 

 ments, Fruit, Flowers, Trees, Forests, Ferns and Funguses, 

 and Grain. London, Westley and Davis, 1833. 



A compilation of facts and notices on plants remarkable 

 for their structure, attributes, and extensive usefulness to 

 mankind ; and it is the most richly stored and best concocted 

 compilation on the subject which we have ever seen. Its 

 great fault is the trick of making all its information pass 

 through the lips of Mr. and Mrs. Elwood, and their son 

 Frederick, and daughter Emma. The parents speak only 

 pearls, and the children question and animadvert with more 



