692 Smithes Treatise on the Culture of 



Lagomys alpinus Desm. : plants ; y^nemone discolor, jRanuii- 

 culus polypetalus, Zsopyrum grandiflorum and microphyllum, 

 Z)elphinium cashmerianum, j^coniturn lieterophyllum, Cimi- 

 cifuga frigida, Meconopsis aculeata, C'orydalis cashmeriana and 

 Govanza^a, Tauscher/a desertorum, Fiola serpens, renifor- 

 niis, and kunawurensis, and Grevvm elastica. All these plants 

 are pretty, or interesting for their rarity; but the Delphinium, 

 ^conitum, Cimicifuga, and Corydalides are showily orna- 

 mental. No text descriptive of any of the objects of these 

 figures is supplied in the (irst part, but is to be published in 

 the second. The omission of it from the first is stated to be 

 owing to the length to which " the observations respecting the 

 geographical description of the Flora of Northern India have 

 extended." These are long : they occupy, in the first part, 

 40 quarto pages, and are not concluded. But, although long, 

 they are very interesting. They communicate a multitude of 

 facts on the characters of the tracts of country explored, of 

 their boundaries, elevation, soil, atmosphere, temperature, 

 conditions of climate according to season; and of circum- 

 stances of this nature. The facts, and the lists of plants, &c., 

 as successively mentioned, are compared with those of other 

 countries in the four quarters of the globe ; and one of the 

 objects of this comparison seems to be, " to show, that, in the 

 [Himalayan and Cashmerian] climates in which these varied 

 productions grow, others from different countries may be suc- 

 cessfully introduced." 



This work will be valuable in supplying a rich mass of facts 

 on the natural history (using this term in an extended sense) 

 of a part of the world, of which our knowledge has hitherto 

 been very vague and partial. For the sake of science, we 

 wish the work were not produced in a style so costly, that but 

 few can possess themselves of it. 



Smith, John, nearly twenty years Gardener to Dykes Alex- 

 ander, Esq., of Ipswich : A Treatise on the artificial 

 Growth of Cucumbers and Melons, conjointly with that of 

 Asparagus, Mushrooms, Rhubarb, &;c. ; comprehending 

 Observations on the methods now in use for the growth of 

 Cucumbers, with a full explanation of an improved mode 

 of culture, by which, with a much less quantity of the fer- 

 menting substance, and a tithe of the care and attention 

 which is generally bestowed upon them, not only is success 

 rendered certain, even in the most adverse season, and fruit 

 of the finest appearance produced, but Asparagus, Mush- 

 rooms, Rhubarb, &c., are at the same time produced, of 

 excellent quality, and with the greatest possible celerity : 



