356 Jacquhr's MonograpJiie complete du Melon. 



ters take in the Toreign Qiiarterly Hevie'w, to borrow it, 

 and peruse the very complete and excellent account of De 

 Candolle's work, and epitome of its contents, given in No. xxii. 

 for April, 1833. This review is attributed to one of our 

 correspondents. Professor Henslow ; and it is altogether a 

 distinct, clear, and comprehensive view of all that relates to 

 what is properly termed vegetable physiology, and its appli- 

 cation to fjardeninff and agriculture. Should the work not be 

 translated soon, we will give an abstract of those parts of it 

 which are more especially interesting to gardeners. 



Jacquhiy M., aine, Membre de plusieurs Societes Horticul- 

 turales Franc^aises et Etrangeres : Monographic complete 

 du Melon ; contenant la culture, la description et le classe- 

 ment de toutes les varietes de cette espece, suivies de celles 

 de la Pasteque a chair fondante, avec la figure de chacune 

 dessinee et coloriee d'apres Nature. Pp. 204, planches S3. 

 Paris, 1832. 36 francs. 



Sir, The sixth and concluding number of the above work 

 having at length come to hand, I proceed, according to your 

 desire, to render you some account of its contents. In so 

 doing, I shall, of course, view it only in relation to this country. 

 As regards France, it is, without doubt, an indispensable vade 

 meciim ; being, as a whole, the most accurate, most complete, 

 and best digested treatise on the subject ever offered to the 

 horticulturists of that kingdom. The author himself invites 

 a comparison with his precursors, in giving also a list of the 

 works antecedent to his own, and whose authors he accuses, 

 *' en masse," of plagiarism one from the other in succession. 

 He has, however, omitted to cite the last edition, by no means 

 a mere reprint, in 1828, of Calvel's work, heretofore the 

 best: Manuel de V Amateur de Melojis (with figures), par 

 Alexandre Martin (probably a fictitious name), Paris, 1827; 

 this is a compilation throughout : and, lastly, Les deux Me- 

 moires sur les Cucurbit acees, par M. Sageret ; a work per- 

 fectly original, and containing details and results of number- 

 less personal experiments, which ought not to have been 

 omitted in the list, nor neglected in the composition of the 

 present work. This octogenarian experimentalist, who has 

 spent his life in his garden, and has now lost his eyesight in 

 the service, commenced the culture of melons, with the view 

 of comparing the different varieties, classing and enumerating 

 them ; intending to accompany their description by instruc- 

 tions for cultivation, drawn from a long and diversified 

 experience : but, seduced by the more alluring study of the 

 phenomena attendant on their hybridisation, he was pre- 



