CONTENTS. 



VU 



REVIEWS. 



Don's General System of Gardening and Botany 

 &c 194 



Le Bon Jardinier, Almanac pour I'Annee 1835. 

 Par A. Poiteau et Vilmorin . - 194 



1. Address delivered before the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society, on the Celebration of 

 their First Anniversary, Sept. 19. 1829. By 

 H. A. S. Dearborn - - - 196 



2. The same for the Second Annual Festival, 

 September, 1830. By Zebedee Cook, Jun. 195 



3 The same for the Third Annual Festival, Sep- 

 tember, 1831. By Malthus A. Ward, M.D. 



195 



Royle's Illustrations of the Botany and other 

 Branches of the Natural History of the Hima- 

 layan Mountains, and of the Flora of Cashmere, 

 &c. ■ 86. 199 



1. The American Gardener's Magazine, and Re- 

 gister of all useful Discoveries and Improve- 

 ments in Horticulture and Rural Affairs. 



I Conducted by C. M. Hovey, and P. B. Hovey, 

 '.Jun. Boston, U. S. - - - - 530 



2. The Horticultural Register and Gardener's 

 Magazine. Conducted by T. G. Fessenden 

 and J. E. Teschemacher. Boston, U. S. - 531 



Magasin d'Horticulture, &c. Par R. Courtois, 

 Docteur en Medecine, Sous-Dlrecteur du Jar- 

 din Botanique de I'Universite de Lidge, &c. 78 



The Fruit Cultivator, &c. By John Rogers, Nur- 

 seryman, formerly of the Royal Gardens - 99 



The Florist's Magazine ; a Register of the new- 

 est and most beautiful Varieties of Florists' 

 Flowers : drawn from Nature, engraved and 



■ coloured in the most finished Style. By F. W. 

 Smith - - - - - 425 



A History and Description of the different Va- 

 rieties of the Pansy, or Heartsease, now in 

 cultivation in the British Gardens, illustrated 

 with Twenty-four coloured Figures of the 

 choicest Sorts. By J. Sinclair and J. Freeman 



An Article drawn up for the " Encyclopsedia Bri. 

 tannics. " By Dr. Neiil . . 673 



Outlines of Botany, including a General History 

 of the Vegetable Kingdom, in which Plants are 

 arranged according to the System of Natural 

 Affinities. By Gilbert T. Burnet, FL.S. - 591 



A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the 

 Vine on open Walls. By Clement Hoare - 674 



Hooker's Journal of Botany, &c. - - 85 



Report on Lawson's Agricultural Museum - 196 



Shirreff's Tour through North America . 197 



The Complete Farmer and Rural Economist &c. 

 By Thomas G. Fessenden, Esq., Author of 

 the " New England Farmer " - - 87 



Journal of a recent Visit to the principal Vine- 

 yards of Spain and France, &c. By James 

 Busby, Esq. . . . - 90 



Catalogue of Works on Gardening, Agriculture, 

 Botany, Rural Architecture, &c., lately pub- 

 lished, with some Account of those considered 

 the most interesting - . 100. 202. 593 



Mantell's Floriculture Doncaster Association on 

 the Turnip Fly, 100 ; Sopwith's Isomelrical 

 Drawing, 101 ; Bagster's Bees, 102 ; the Mir- 

 ror, 202; Vienna Agricultural Transactions, 

 Botanical Gazette, 203 ; Deakin and Marnock's 

 Floiigraphia Britannica, Reitz on the Merino 

 Sheep, Titford's Hortus Americanus, 534; Flora 

 and Thalia, Stewart's Outlines of Botany, 535; 

 Main's Popular Botany, Bohler's Lichens of 

 Britain, Sowerby's English Boiany, 593 ; Bajf. 

 ter's British Flowering Plants, Francis's Cata- 

 logue of British Flowering Plants and Ferns, 

 Sinclair's Description of the Dahlia, 594; Smith 

 on Cucumbers and Melons, Nurseryman's Cata- 

 logue for 1835, Clarke's English Grammar, 595 ; 

 Smith's Evolution, Smith's Speaker's Guide, 

 596 : Salon d'E't^ t Gand, Societt- Anonirae 

 d'Horticulture, De Candolle's Rare Plants of 

 the Geneva Garden, 597. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



General Notices. — The Buds, Twigs, and 

 Branches of Trees, of many Plants ; Natural- 

 isation of Plants, Covering Wall-Fruit Trees 

 with Ivy, Plants grown in Moss, Transplanting 

 large Trees, 103; Economy of the little grey 

 Moth (YponomeCta padella), 204; General 

 Existence of a newly observed and peculiar 

 Property in Plants, and on its Analogy to the 

 Irritability of Animals, Character of the Phe- 

 nomena, Plants in which Instances of the 

 Phenomena have been observed, 263 ; Nature 

 and Cause of the Phenomena, Facts which op- 

 pose the ascribing the Divergence to Elasticity, 

 Facts which led Dr. Johnson to conclude that 

 a vital Property causes the Divergence, Stimu- 

 lants which excite or increase the Power of 

 Divergence, Receiving and Exchanging Seeds, 

 264; Leaden Wire, Lepidium ruderMe, 265 ; 

 Metallic Wire for Tying up Trees, &c., 318; 

 Prepared Zinc Labels for Plants, Ap|)les kejjt 

 nearly till Apples C'>me again, 319 ; To destroy 

 Insects by a Solution of . Chlorine, Superior 

 Label for Plants, 535; To Dry Botanical Spe- 

 cimens with despatch, Kyan's Patent Compo- 

 sition for Seasoning Timber,]Early, Middle, and 

 Late blossoming Apples, Kidney Potatoes 

 planted whole, 536. ; Scientific Fecundation, A 

 simple Instrument for indicating the Changes of 

 the Weather, 677. 



Foreign Notices. 

 France. — The Foreign Trees of France, Th 

 Exotic Plantations of Madame Aglae Adanson, 

 BenthSimio and MacUira, The Spanish Potato, 

 42 ; Catalogue of Plants cultivated by J. Sisley- 

 Vandael, Rambouillet, Dec. 23., 205 ; Jardin de 

 Fremont, 206. 678 ; Paris, Rue des Vignes, 478 ; 

 Horscchestnut Trees, True Service Tree, Gla- 

 diolus nataUnsis, 537. 



Belgium. — Foreign Trees of the Netherlands, 

 104; Planting in the District of Li^ge, 150; 

 Humbeque Nursery, near Brussels, 537. 



Ger7nany. — Vienna, Nov. 20., Stuttgard, Oct. 23., 

 104 ; Flotbeck Nurseries, Hamburgh, 206 ; Ca- 

 ra(t\\ia francofurtensis, 265; Munich, May 30., 

 480 ; Botanic Garden of i^erlin, 541. 



Italy. — Naples, Jan. 9., 150 ; Peuta, near Sa- 

 lerno, June 13., 481. 



North America. — Boston, Dec. 8., 151 ; Catalogue 

 of Vegetable, Herb, Flower, Tree, and Grass 

 Seeds, Ornamental Tree Society, Species of 

 Elm called the Slippery or Red Elm, The Date 

 Palm Tree, Botanical Tour, 207; Progress of 

 Floriculture in Philadelphia, 265 ; Columbus, 

 Ohio, March 1., Philadelphia, May 18., 483. 



South America. — Manufacture of Meal from the 

 Cassava Root, and of the Indian Drink Pie- 

 warrie, 484. 



India The Discovery of the Tea Shrub in 



India, 428 ; Discovery of the Genuine Tea 

 Plant in Upper Assam, 429. 



Africa. — Nursery at Algiers, 482. 



Australia. — The South Australian Association, 

 Swan River Colony, 140. _.„„ 



Domestic Notices, 



England. — A Botanic Garden, Animals in the 

 Botanic Garden of Bury St. Edmund's, Weekes's 

 Mode of heating by Hot Water, White Knights 

 43 ; High Clere, Remarkable Foreign Trees, 

 Fine Trees near London, 44 ; Trees and Shrubs 

 in Suffolk and other parts of England, The 

 Mcus elastica, MagnhMa grandiflbra, 45 ; Ca. 

 talpa syringcefhWa, Salisbiir2« adiantifblia, Ro- 

 binia hfspida trained against a wall, Riba 

 sanguineum, Cork Tree, Brugmansia sua- 

 vdolens, 46 ; The Pomegranate, Eriobutrya^ 

 jap6nica. Leaves and Fruit of a Sweet watci; 



