684- 



REVIEWS. 



Art. I. Catalogue of Worhs on Gardening, Agriculture, Botany, 

 Rural Ardiitecture, 8^c., lately published, tviih some Account 

 of those considered the most interesting. 



Anon. : The Gardener's Dictionary, containing the best and 

 newest methods of improving and cultivating the Kitchen, 

 Fruit, and Flower Garden and Nursery ; as also for perform- 

 ing the practical parts of Agriculture, including the ma- 

 naging of Vineyards; with the methods of making and 

 preserving Wines, according to the practice of the most 

 skilful Vignerons in the several wine countries in Europe. 

 Together with Directions for propagating and improving, 

 from real practice and experience, all sorts of Timber Trees. 

 By Philip Miller, F.R.S., &c. The ninth edition; being 

 a copy of the latest edition which was published in the 

 Author's lifetime, and modified to the latest Discoveries in 

 Botany and Gaj'dening in all their branches. To be pub- 

 lished in 50 8vo numbers, at Is, each : to form 4 volumes. 



This is one of two simultaneous editions of Miller's Gar- 

 dener''s Dictionary^ which are now publishing, or are about 

 to be published ; one in quarto, and the other in octavo, 

 and both without an editor's name. The specimen before 

 us consists of 48 pages and four plates ; the letter-press 

 is chiefly occupied with botanical descriptions, commenc- 

 ing with ^-^^bies and terminating with v^cacia. We are, there- 

 fore, not enabled, from this specimen, to form an estimate of 

 the merits of the work, as far as respects practical gardening 

 or agriculture ; but we can judge of the general style in which 

 it is got up, and of the plates. The greater part of the article 

 ^^bies is the same as that article in the Pennij Cyclopaedia, 

 understood to be prepared by Professor Lindley; but the 

 compiler, in the work before us, has ignorantly tacked to it 

 several quotations which refer to the genus Pinus, or what is 

 vulgarly called the Scotch fir. The historical notices of the 

 different species are exceedingly meagre, and throughout the 

 whole there are not a few typographical errors : such as deu- 

 drographia for dendrographia, Stanwick for Alnwick, Nichol 

 for Nicol, Browne for Brown, sempei'oriens for sempervirens. 



In giving directions for sowing larch seeds, we are told to 

 cover them half an inch deep, which must be an oversight for 



