686 L'ish Farmer'' s and Gardener'' s Magazine. 



The editor seems so unfamiliar with the botanical epitliets, 

 as to be unable to spell them accurately : thus we have cineria 

 for cinerea, nigrecans for nigricans, stipulacia for stipulacea, 

 felicina for filicina, casioides for cassioides ; and typographical 

 errors besides in plenty. 



The work is behind the time. By abbreviations and signs 

 that could be recognised at first sight, it would be possible to 

 express what is expressed in half the space. Not an accent is 

 given. The translations are not always litei'al : thus, we have 

 " Acacia pulchella, zigzag spiny Acacia ; " " nigricans, un- 

 equalled winged." We are sorry to see a person professing to 

 teach on botany, as any one who writes on it does, not better 

 qualified for his task. 



Doyle, Martin [the assumed name of an Irish clergyman, who 

 had for several years the direction of an agricultural 

 school], Author of " Hints to Small Farmers," and of many 

 useful little Tracts, and Edmund Murjiliy, late Acting Se- 

 cretary to the Horticultural and Arboricultural Society for 

 Ireland : The Irish Farmer's and Gardener's Magazine 

 and Register of Rural Aifairs, In monthly numbers, Svo, 

 1 5. each. No. I. Nov. 1833. 



If this magazine be properly supported, we should antici- 

 pate, from what we know of its editors, that it will be one of 

 the best of our imitators, numerous as they now are. The 

 only doubt that we have as to the work is, the propriety of 

 joining a farmer's magazine with one for gardeners. The 

 farmers in England are, at this moment, the only class of 

 men in the country who do not read ; those in Ireland are 

 not likely to be much better; and for this reason the expected 

 purchasers of the work must be the country gentlemen and 

 the gardeners. We do not think the latter will care much 

 for discussions on farming, and therefore we would suggest the 

 propriety of separating this shilling magazine into two six- 

 penny ones. We throw out these hints for the consideration 

 of the editors, most sincerely wishing the success of the 

 work, either as it is, or altered as we suggest. The first 

 number, now before us, we consider to be a very favourable 

 example of what such a work ought to be, notwithstanding 

 Mr. Murphy's apology for it, on the cover, as not being 

 a fair specimen, from the more important London periodi- 

 cals for October (owing to some accident) not having ar- 

 rived in Dublin when he was obliged to go to press. The 

 best paper in the number is one by Mr. Murphy, on forest 

 planting; another, by him, on late pruning, that is, pruning 

 deferred till the trees attain a large size, rather mistakes, as 

 we think, the object of Mr. Blaikie in pruning by foreshort- 



