534 Works on Gardening, Sfc. 



Art. II. Catalogue of Worhs on Gardening, Agriculture, Botany, 

 Rural Architecture, 8fc., lately published, tvith some Account of those 

 considered the more interesting. 



Deakin, Richard, F.R.C.S.E. ; and MarnocJc, Robert, Curator 

 of the Sheffield Botanical and Horticultural Gardens : Flori- 

 graphia Britannica ; or Engravings and Descriptions of the 

 Flowering Plants and Ferns of Britain. In monthly 8vo num- 

 bers ; 6d. plain, and Is. coloured. Sheffield. 



" The object of the present undertaking is to obviate certain 

 difficulties and remove obstacles, v^^ith a view to the more gene- 

 ral study of a sci-ence which affiards to the admirer of nature 

 an elegant intellectual enjoyment, while it lays open to the taste- 

 ful enquirer objects of exquisite delicacy and variety of struc- 

 ture, as well as beauty of form, leads the mind {particularly of 

 youth) to the investigation of the more minute wonders of crea- 

 tion, and to a preference for out-door enjoyments, from which 

 habit arise advantages too obvious to be insisted on here." 



" This work is intended to be published in monthly numbers, 

 demy 8vo, price 6d., commencing August 1st : the illustrations 

 will consist of engravings from original drawings of every ascer- 

 tained species of British flowering plants and ferns, with dissec- 

 tions of those parts of the plant most important to be known in 

 distinguishing the various genera and species. Each number will 

 contain twelve figures of plants, six on a page, with letterpress 

 descriptions of the whole. An edition will also be published 

 with coloured plates, price I5." 



All that we can say in favour of this work is, that it is cheap ; 

 for the plates are worse done than any similar publication that 

 we remember to have seen. 



Reitz, F. W., Member of the Agricultural Societies of Cape 

 Town and Swellendam : Observations on the Merino Sheep ; 

 containing a brief Account of the Methods by which that Ani- 

 mal has been brought to its present State of Perfection in 

 Germany ; and intended for the Consideration of Wool- 

 Growers at the Cape of Good Hope. Pamphlet, 8vo. Cape 

 Town. 



The author appears to be familiar with what Thaer, Lastey- 

 rie, and Parry have written on the subject, and also with the 

 practices of the wool-growers of Saxony and at the Cape. As 

 the pamphlet occupies only fourteen pages, we think it ought to 

 be reprinted in the Farmer's Magazine entire, and we shall send 

 it to the editor for that purpose. 



Titford, TV. J., M. D. : Hortus Americanus. Sketches toward? 

 a Plortus Botanicus Americanus ; or. Coloured Plates, with 

 a Catalogue, and concise and familiar Descriptions of many 



