General Notices. 535 



Sp ecies of New and Valuable Plants of the West Indies, and 

 of North and South America; also, of several others, Natives 

 of Africa and the East Indies ; arranged after the Linnaean 

 System, and accompanied with Indices, Glossary, Table of 

 Habitats, &c. 4to. London, 1826. 



We should be glad to learn whether a second part of this work 

 ever appeared, and what prospect there is of its being completed. 



A Lady :- Flora and Thalia ; or, Gems of Flowers and Poetry ; 

 being an Alphabetical Arrangement of Flowers, with Botanical 

 Descriptions and appropriate Poetry. Twenty-six coloured 

 plates. 8vo. London. 10s. 6d. silk, richly embossed. 



Stewart, JR. B., Esq.: Outlines of Botany: a Sketch of the Lin- 

 n^an Arrangement of Plants, with Tables to illustrate the 

 Distinctions of Genera and Species ; to which are added, 

 Hints for the Management of a small Garden. Small Svo, 

 pp. 72. London, 1835. 



The most valuable part of this little book are the Hints for 

 the Management of a small Garden, which are good so far as 

 they go ; but the author has not said half enough on neatness 

 and high keeping, keeping down insects, and watering with an 

 engine or a syringe to counteract the effects of the dust and 

 soot so troublesome in suburban gardens. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



A'RT. L. General Notices. 



To destroy Insects by a Solution of. Chlorine is said to be a cheap, clean, and 

 easy method.. Mr. H. Hall, in the May number of the Irish Farmer's and^ 

 Gardener's Magazine^ p. 227., says he has employed this solution for the last 

 three years. It is " made by mixing with twenty gallons of spring water a 

 pound of the chloride of lime (or common bleaching powder), in ajarge jar,, 

 which can be easily made air-tight : to this add about a. pound of sulphuric 

 acid (vitriol), which disengages the chloride, and, uniting with the lime, pre- 

 cipitates it in the form of sulphate, leaving a clear solution of chlorine." 



A very superior Label for Plants may be made by laying on " a suitable slip 

 of glass a coat of transfer varnish, on which the name, &c., of a plant, printed 

 on paper and moistened, is to be pressed with the finger (the printed side 

 downwards). When the varnish is dry, the paper is to be rubbed off gently 

 with a damp cloth, leaving the printing attached to the glass, . on which a 

 strong coat of white oil paint is to be laid, and sprinkled with fine sand or. 

 dowdered glass ; or another slip of glass, similar to the first, painted on one 

 side with white lead, may be cemented on it, v/hen a label of surpassing dis- 

 tinctness and permanency will be produced. Any ordinary printed catalogue 

 of plants may be made available for the purpose above stated." (^R. Ball, in, 

 the Irish Farmer's and Gardener's Magazine, ii. 265.) 



This appears to us to be a good mode of naming plants, where Stewart 

 Murray's labels (III. 29.), or those of Allardyce (V11I.-33.), are used. Allar- 



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