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much the better, say we; for by these means the taste for 

 garden enjoyments, of which reading garden works is one, 

 will be firmly and extensively rooted into the country. 



Anon. : The Horticultural Journal, and Florists' Register of 

 Useful Information connected with Floriculture, &c. Dedi- 

 cated to the Right Honourable the Earl of Errol and the 

 Vice-Presidents of the Metropolitan Society of Florists 

 and Amateurs. No. I., July. London, 1833. Price Is. 



- This publication has come before us without our being pre- 

 viously aware of its existence, and, fortunately, just in time 

 for us to make it known to our readers. It contains in all 

 16 pages of letterpress, and a coloured plate of the Ajax 

 heartsease, and another of Clarke's Pandora tulip. These 

 two coloured prints had been previously published in the 

 Lady's Magazine, from which work the plates have of course 

 been borrowed. Of the 16 pages, of letterpress seven are occu- 

 pied with floricultural information ; the remainder with light 

 diverting reading, in no way connected with the garden, save 

 that a pleasant bower in a garden is a delightful place in 

 which, in the sunny days of July, to sit and read. 



The contents on floriculture are, an introduction to the 

 work, remarks on the tulip mania, and on the Fanny Kemble 

 tulip; of the latter a figure is promised for the next number. 

 The editor writes in defence of the tulip mania in the follow- 

 ing manner: — " We have as much right to laugh at an old 

 booby, who, over his rusty coin cabinet, feasts his eyes on his 

 fifty-guinea old coppers and sixpences, or at the silly buyer 

 of daubed canvass at a thousand guineas a yard, or at the 

 madman who gives a thousand pounds for a horse to break 

 his own neck with, as they have at the ' fool who gives twenty 

 or fifty guineas for a tulip.'" We have heard nearly the 

 same general sentiment expressed by Mr. Groom and other 

 florists. To these remarks follows a description of each of the 

 plants figured in the plate ; then an account of the late shows 

 of the London Horticultural Society, and of those of the 

 Metropolitan Society of Florists and Amateurs ; then of the 

 annual meeting of the East London Ranunculus Society; 

 also of that of the Sunbury Horticultural and Florists' So- 

 ciety. To these notices follow a " new list of chrysanthe- 

 mums," taken from the Gardener's Magazine for April, p. 221. ; 

 an announcement of " meetings to come ; " remarks on 

 " choosing judges;" a review of Mr. Hogg's new book on 

 floriculture, which work is censured ; and a short review of 

 Mr. Weedon's book on cucumbers, which is praised. 



