De CandoUe's Physiologie Vegetale. 355 



have congregated from all climates, in their Horticultural 

 Society's Garden, at Chiswick, I find, by the Society's 

 catalogue for 1826, that they have at least fifty varieties of 

 the native peaches of America, the selections from the 

 extensive native orchards of this fruit, raised in the middle 

 and western states for distillation. All these, so fine in our 

 climate, so much admired by travellers, are, with but Iwo 

 exceptions, rejected as ' Kiorthless,' not being adapted to 

 their latitude, and not arriving to their full maturity and 

 excellence, even on the walls to which their cultivation is 

 confined. (See vol. ii. No. 54. of the Pomological Magazine.) 

 Other varieties of native fruit, so superior in our own climate, 

 are by them almost as little noticed. The apples of America, 

 — the fine selections during two centuries, from the innu- 

 merable native orchards." Not one syllable of the above 

 may require a qualifying question : we would only, in perfect 

 good humour, add an admired couplet from Goldsmith, 

 which has now come to mind : — 



" Such is the patriot's boast where'er we roam. 

 His first best country ever is at home." 



Another of Mr. Kenrick's remarks should be quoted : -^- 

 " The temperature of our climate, on our extensive Atlantic 

 coast, differs considerably from those parts of Europe and 

 of Africa [which are] in corresponding latitudes." Towards 

 the close of his book, the author sketches a list of foreign 

 fruits, and foreign trees, " which may be cultivated in the 

 south-western and southern states to the lat. of 25°," and 

 adds, " Most of these, however, may flourish in the middle 

 states ; and a small portion may succeed in the north-western 

 and eastern states to the latitude of 43°." 



The author dedicates his work " to the Hon. John 

 Lowell, LL. D.," who has, during the twenty-five years past, 

 been a distinguished promoter of gardening and farming in 

 America ; and in the course of that time has " extensively 

 disseminated many valuable productions — the donations 

 from T. A. Knight, Esq. [President of the London Horti- 

 cultural Society], and from other sources." 



FRANCE. 



De Candolle, M. Aug. Fyr. : Physiologic Vegetale, ou Expo- 

 sition des Forces et desFonctions Vitales de Vegetaux, pour 

 servir de suite a I'Organographie Vegetale, et d'lntroduc- 

 tion a la Botanique Geographique et Agricole. 8vo, 3 torn. 

 Paris, 1832. 



This excellent work, we hope, will soon be translated. In 

 the mean time, we can recommend all gardeners whose mas- 



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