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plan, a perspective view is given of a French garden, in which, 

 however, there is no parterre. It is partly copied from a plate 

 of Le Rouge, Reciieil^ &c., and partly invention. Literally, it 

 consists of thi-ee straight hedges cut into arcades, with one hedge 

 of arcades placed at right angles to them ; and twelve parallelo- 

 gram beds, with a number of statues, vases, and figures which 

 might be introduced into any garden whatever. 



The attempt to give an idea of the Italian garden is exactly of 

 the same kind as that intended to describe the French garden ; 

 and it is quite amusing to observe the two woodcuts that are 

 given to illustrate it. One of these is a view of the Isola Bella; 

 and the other is a composition. In the last are brought together 

 the pheasantry designed by Repton for the palace at Brighton ; 

 an Indian tank and fountain, also designed by Repton for the 

 same palace ; the gloriette in the park at Schonbrunn ; and 

 various objects, which have no more to do with an Italian garden, 

 than they have with any other. The mistake in the compilation 

 of this view of a garden consists in its being filled with orna- 

 ments common to any style, instead of exhibiting those features 

 of the Italian style which are characteristic of it, and independent 

 of any ornament. 



It would be easy to prove that all that the author has written 

 respecting the Dutch and the English styles is equally insuf- 

 ficient to effect the object of the book, as already quoted from 

 the prospectus ; but we have done enough, we trust, to prove 

 our first proposition. 



By controversial spirit, we allude to certain pages occupied 

 with discussions which took place in the Qiiarterly Journal of 

 Agriculture, respecting the excrementitious secretions of plants ; 

 and, by ill-nature, we allude to a spirit which manifests itself in 

 many pages of the work, of the author's disposition to find fault 

 where he can. It is a rule with us never to say anything in the 

 review of a book that we should shrink from repeating in the 

 presence of the author. In the present case, we should have 

 said a great deal more; but that, among other reasons, we dislike 

 the idea of decrying any work; and more especially one which, 

 considering the decorations with which it is accompanied, is 

 cheap. Every number of the work is ornamented with one or 

 more groups of flowers, printed in colours by the very ingenious 

 process invented by Mr. Baxter, and which will probably effect a 

 great improvement in all books requiring coloured illustrations. 



Art. VII. Catalogue of Works on Gay-dening, Agriculture, Botany, 

 Rural Architecture, 8^c., lately published, ivitli some Account of those 

 considered the more interesting. 



A SMALL Edition of English Botany ; containing the Plants of 



