362 Various BooJcs. 



from these dates we infer that the work is prosecuted as the 

 leisure and facihties of the authors render convenient. 



The camellias are gorgeously ornamental plants ; and their 

 large, thick, dark green, glossy leaves, and broad orbicular 

 blossoms, usually composed of large petals full of a high 

 colour, render them in an especial manner, as we presume, 

 satisfactory objects from which to produce beautiful pictures. 

 This result has been effected in the numbers before us, the 

 lithographs of which have been executed by MM. Engelmann 

 and Co., of Mulhouse, Haut Rhin. The descriptions are in 

 German. Chandler and Booth's Illustrations of the Ca- 

 meWiece, so often noticed in this Magazine, form an equivalent 

 work in the EngUsh language. 



Various Contributor's : L'Agronome, Journal Mensuel d'Agri- 

 culture, d'Horticulture, d'Economie Domestique, d'Eco- 

 nomie Rurale, Forestiere, &c. A cinq francs par an (franc 

 de port), et un franc de plus pour les pays etrangers. 

 Publie par le Comite central d' Agriculture Fran^aise, a 

 Paris, et paraissant en un livraison de deux feuilles ou 

 trente-deux pages grand in 8vo, le 15 de chaque mois, aux 

 Bureaux du Comite central d' Agriculture, rue Choiseul. 

 No. 2. 1833, Janvier, Fevrier, Mars, Avril. 



This monthly journal of agriculture, &c., was begun with 

 the year, and in the four numbers which we have received 

 are contained some very interesting and useful papers. 



GERMANY. 



Verhandlungen der h. k. Landwirthschcifts-Gesellschqft in Wien, 

 mid Auffake vermischten okonomischen Inhaltes, &c. 

 Transactions of the Imperial and Royal Agricultural So- 

 ciety of Vienna, &c. Vienna, 1832. New series. Vol.1. 

 Part I. 8vo. 



The preceding volumes of these Transactions were printed 

 in -ito, and of course their circulation must have been very 

 limited. The Society have now taken the wiser part of 

 publishing them in 8vo, by which means their chances of 

 doing good are necessarily greatly increased. The part before 

 us is occupied chiefly with farming subjects, with the excep- 

 tion of a paper on Artesian wells, by Baron Jacquin ; and 

 some remarks on insects which attack trees, by M. Binder, 

 one of the imperial foresters. Beet-root sugar, ryegrass, 

 draining, and various extracts from Mathieu de Dombasle's 

 works, fill up the remainder. 



