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CONTENTS. 



Richmond, K.G. By William Haylcy Ma- 

 son, Librarian of Goodwood ... 523 

 Tlic Young Farmer's Manual. 15. J. Main, 

 A.L.S. 523 



AGRICULTURE. 



The Journal of the English Agricultural 

 Society ------- 34.5 



HORTICULTURAL & AGRICULTURAL 

 ENTOMOLOGY. 



Die Vier Hauptfeinde der Obstgarten, &c. 

 The Four principal Enemies of the Or- 

 chard, with the most effective Means for 

 their Destruction. By Vincent Kollar, 

 Keeper of the Imperial Cabinet of Natural 

 History - 171 



Westwood's Introduction to the modern Clas- 

 sification of Insects - - 32 



Westwood's Entomologist's Text-Book - 30 



CATALOGUE. 

 Catalogue of Works on Gardening, Agricul- 

 ture, Botany, Rural Architecture, &c., 

 lately published ; with some Account of 

 those considered the more interesting : — 



General Subject. 

 Decandolle's Vegetable Organography. 



Translated by B. Kingdon - 174. 468. 702 

 Cooper's Catalogue of the British Natural 



Orders and Genera ----- 174 

 Proceedings of the Linnean Society of Lon- 

 don - 176 



Proceedings of the Royal Asiatic Society in 



relation to Agriculture and Gardening - 177 

 Audibert's Catalogue des Arbres, Arbustes, 



et Plantes, &c, cultivgs a Tonelle - - 180 

 Legrandais's Catalogue des Plantes cultivees 



a" Avranches ------ 180 



Springe de l'Hybridite dans les Plantes et 



les Animaux, &c. ----- 181 

 Seringe's Essai des Formules Botaniques - 182 

 Plantes des Environs de Toulon - 183 



Le Courier Agricole et Horticole, &c. - 184 



Lindley's School Botany ... - 275 

 Marcet's Vegetable Physiology - 276 



Dillwyn's Review of the Hortus Malabaricus 276 

 Mawe and Abercrombie's Every Man his 



own Gardener ------ 276 



Endlicher's Grundziige einer neuen Theorie 



der Pflanzung eugung ... - 287 

 Second Additional Supplement to Loudon's 



Hortus Britannicus ----- 416 

 Lindley's Lady's Botany abridged - - 561 

 Dillwyn on the Effects of the Winter of 



1837-8 on some Shrubberies and Gardens 



in Glamorganshire - 561 



Sweet's Botanical Cultivator ... 701 

 Don's Edition of Sweet's Hortus Britannicus 701 



Landscape-Gardening and Rural Architecture. 

 Loudon's Edition of Repton's Landscape- 

 Gardening and Landscape- Architecture - 466 

 Chateauneuf's Architectura Domestica - 703 



Arboriculture. 



Millet's Notice sur la Culture des Oseraies 

 dansl'Aisne ------ 181 



Main's Forest Pruner and Pruner's Assist- 

 ant 467 



Floriculture. 

 Willmot's Amateur-Florist's Assistant - 174 

 The Bouquet, or Lady's Flower-Garden - 175 

 Loddiges's Catalogue of the Orchideas in 

 their Collection ... - - 177 



Pile's Floriculturist 276 



Berlise's Iconographie du Genre Camellia - 467 



Horticulture. 



Smith's Treatise on the Growth of Cucum- 

 bers and Melons, conjointly with that of 

 Asparagus, Mushrooms, Rhubarb, &c. - 175 



Duncan's Practical Treatise on the Culture 

 of the Melon ------ 175 



Glendinning's Practical Hints on the Cul- 

 ture of the Pine Apple - 277 



Niven's Treatise on an improved and cheap 

 Method of cultivating Asparagus - -279 



Agriculture. 



Recueil par la Societe d'Agriculture d'A- 

 vranches ------- 182 



Sinclair's Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis - 702 



Bee Culture. 

 Payne's Apiarian Guide - 178 



Taylor's Bee-keeper's Manual - - - 286 



Miscellaneous. 

 Ure's Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and 



Mines 34. 179. 282 



Claxton's Hints to Mechanics on Self-Edu- 

 cation and Mutual Instruction - - 179 

 The Year-Book of Facts. By the Editor of 



the Arcana of Science ... - 179 

 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and 

 Instruction ----- 180. 471 



The Transactions of the Society of Arts for 

 1837-8 ------- 281 



Moseley's Treatise on Mechanics - - 282 



The British Almanack for the Diffusion of 

 Knowledge for 1839 - - - - 282 



Companion to the Almanack for 1839 - - 282 

 Report of the Society for obtaining free Ad- 

 mission to Societies and public Edifices 

 containing Works of Art - 417 



Smith's Suggestions on National Education - 417 

 Waterton's Essays on Natural History - 417. 468 

 Ingpen's Instructions for collecting, rearing, 



and preserving British Insects - - 468 



Howard's Science of Drawing - - - 469 



Howard's Sketcher's Manual ... 470 

 Howard's Colour as a Means of Art - - 470 

 Sigmond's Treatise on Tea ; its Effects me- 

 dicinal and moral, &c. - 471 

 Booth's Stranger's Intellectual Guide to Lon- 

 don for 1839-40 - 471. 562 

 The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal 703 

 The Engineer and Surveyor's Magazine - 703 

 Timb's Literary World ----- 703 



The Guide to Service— The Maid of All- 

 Work, House Maid, Lady's Maid, Nursery 



Maid 703 



Fennel's Child's Book of Zoology - - 704 



Loudon's Edition of Repton's Landscape-Gar- 

 dening, &c. - - - - - 418 



LITERARY NOTICES. 

 Waterton's Essays on Natural History - 419 

 Wight's Illustrations of Indian Botany - 288 



Wight's Icones Plantarum India? Orientalis 288 

 Kollar's Insects Injurious to Gardeners, 

 Foresters, &c. - - - - 288 



MISCELLANEOUS 



General Notices. 



Self-Improvement, M. C, 36; Registering Ther- 

 mometers, R. T, 36; Growing Plants under 

 Glass Cases without changing the Air or 

 Water, W. S., 36 ; Insufficiency of Parchment 

 Labels, W.C., 37 ; Application of Coal Tar to 

 Fruit Trees, W. G, 37 ; Epil&bium hirsutum, 



. W. T., 37 ; Ferbfena teucrioides, 37 ; A Stone- 

 ware Churn, 144; Kyanising Wood, 184 ; Em- 

 ployment of Mineral Tar, or Pyroligneous 



INTELLIGENCE. 



Liquor, for the Protection of Walls of Masonry 

 or of Mud, 185 ; Preserving Specimens of 

 Plants, or of Organic Substances generally, 185; 

 Phenomena observed in the Freezing of Pota- 

 toes, 185 ; Ultimate Principle of Nutriment to 

 Animals in Vegetable Food, and to Vegetables 

 in Manure, 186 ; On the Part which Soil acts 

 in the Process of Vegetation, 1S6 ; To preserve 

 Hedge-bills, Scythes, Sickles, and other Steel 

 Instruments, from rusting, 186; Grafting- Wax 



