152 Rennie's Handbook of Gardening. 



* Voltaire, 35. 6d. ; Wilmot's superb, 2s. 6d. Dark maroon, 

 purple, puce, &c. : Black Prince, 2s. 6d. ; * beauty perfect, 5s. ; 

 Dawson's victory, 2s. ; * erecta, 5s. ; * Granta, dark claret, fine- 

 cupped petals, 10s. 6d. ; * Lord Althorp, 5s. ; * nigress, 3s. 6d. 

 Globe-flowered : Circe, 3s. 6d. ; compacta, scarlet and orange, 

 3s. 6d. 



Of the new kinds, marked by an asterisk, there are eighty, 

 besides those with that mark which we have quoted. 



Mennie, James, M.A., Professor of Zoology, King's College, 

 London: The Handbook of Gardening. 18mo. London, 

 1834. Is. 6d. 



This little book, produced at the instigation of Mr. Menteath, 

 jun., of Closeburn, deserves to be favourably received by the 

 public, from the excellence of the intentions of the parties con- 

 nected with it. In our opinion, however, it is by no means the 

 sort of work calculated to attain the end in view. Such a book, 

 indeed, could not be produced by a mere London author. The 

 man who, of all others that we know, either in Scotland or Eng- 

 land, could produce the best " Handbook " for the Scotch cot- 

 tager is Mr. Gorrie ; and, if we are not mistaken, we mentioned 

 this to Mr. Menteath when he applied to us, above a year since, 

 on the subject of a " Handbook" for Scotch cottagers. All 

 that the Scotch cottager wants might be contained in one number 

 of Chambers's Information for the People, and sold for 2,d., in- 

 stead of being swelled out into an eighteen-penny volume, by 

 mere size of type. Such a number of Chambers's, joined to 

 his number on cookery (No. xvii.), the latter being altered a 

 little, and rendered more economical, would form a useful four- 

 penny-worth to every working man who had a wife and a 

 home. Let us hope that Messrs. Chambers will produce such 

 a number. 



Alien, William Ely, Gardener to the Rev. M. G. Edgar, Red 

 House, Ipswich : A Treatise on an entirely original System 

 of cultivating Cucumbers, Melons, and Sea-kale, forcing Broc- 

 coli, Potatoes, &c. &c. ; with an Address to the Gardeners- 

 of Suffolk, and a practical Critique on " Smith's Treatise." 

 Pamph. 8vo, pp. 28. Ipswich, 1834. 5s. 



This work has the great attraction of being concise ; no small 

 merit in this bookmaking age. We also found, on looking it 

 over, that the end in view is proposed to be obtained, not so 

 much by the use of new machinery, as by an improved use of 

 the machinery already in existence. In what the " entire ori- 

 ginality" of the system consists we have been at a loss to discover, 

 and we therefore think that the author is somewhat unreason- 

 able in his demand of 5s. for the same quantity of printing and 



