Retrospective Criticism. 597, 



BELGIUM. 



Salo?i d'E'te. 53""^ Exposition Publique de la Society Royale 

 d'Agriculture et de Botanique a Gand. 8vo. Gand, 1835. 

 One of those catalogues, partly fictitious and partly real, which 

 it amuses us to look over; partly to see what persons in this 

 country the secretary of the society thinks it desirable to honour, 

 by putting their names at the head of a list of plants supposed 

 to be sent by them to the exhibition (though the party, perhaps, 

 either never heard that such a society existed, or has no plants 

 to send); and partly to see that horticulture is prospering in 

 Belgium in its own manner. The total number of plants exhi- 

 bited at this meeting at Ghent is said to be 2627 ; among which 

 are 46 articles considered of the greatest rarity, sent by three 

 Belgian nurserymen ; viz. Van Geert, Verleeuwen, and Ver- 

 schafFelt. 



Prospectus de la Societe Anonime d^ Horticulture et de Botanique 

 de Gand, Folio. Ghent, 1834. 



This is a scheme for establishing a new horticultural and bo- 



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tanical society at Ghent ; but, as we have never heard anything 

 more of it, we conclude the project has not been successful. 



SWITZERLAND. 



De Candolle^ MM. Aug. Pyr. et Alpli.'. Sixieme Notice sur les 

 Plantes rares cultivees dans le Jardin de Geneve. 



The first plant mentioned is Baumannm geminiflora, sent to 

 the Geneva garden by Messrs. Baumann of Bolwyller, under 

 the name of Bridelm spinosa : it belongs to the jRubiaceae, and 

 appears to be a stove shrub. S'olidago gracilis is the next ; 

 then we have Tanacetum globiferum, formerly Cotula aurea, 

 supposed to be from the Cape of Good Hope, and a half-hardy 

 perennial. There are also Morina longifolia, which promises 

 to be a hardy shrub, as it has stood the winters of 1833 and 

 1834 at Geneva. Amaryllis tuber5sa, A. psittacina Johnson/, 

 and A. bahiensis. Cerasus Mahdleh var. pubescens, apparently 

 a very distinct variety of the perfumed cherry, is next mentioned ; 

 and we hope the plant will soon find its way into the British ar- 

 boretums. Bowiea africana, one of the new genera adopted by 

 Haworth, and ^4cacia obscura, conclude the list. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. Retrospective Criticism. 



The London Horticultural Society^ s Regulations, Sfc, for tlie Year 1836. — The 

 arrangements promulgated by the Horticultural Society for their shows next 

 year have just fallen into my hands ; and, upon the whole, they will prove highly 



