180 Catalogue of Works on Gardening, tyc. 



science in one year, trusting that we have been duly vigilant of its goodly 

 growth. 



" The plan of the Ycar-Book comprises the main features of our Arcana of 

 Science, and something more: it will be found better adapted for general 

 reading; its articles are more various and practical, for, by condensing and 

 rewriting papers, omitting theoretical details and preferring results, we have 

 registered about one thousand new facts in the several branches of useful 

 science. We have striven to render our work popular, in the best sense of 

 the term, by simplifying technicality and only aiming at that concentration 

 which produces high convenience." (Pref) 



The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction : containing Original 

 Essays; Historical Narratives ; Biographical Memoirs ; Manners and Customs ; 

 Topographical Descriptions ; Sketches and Tales ; Anecdotes ; Select Extracts 

 from neiu and expensive Works ; Poetry, original and selected ; the Spirit of 

 the Public Journals; Discoveries in the Arts and Sciences; New Facts in 

 Natural History, fyc. Vol. XXXII. 8vo, pp. 456, numerous engravings. 

 London, 1838. 



This singularly cheap and most entertaining and instructive work continues 

 to appear annually, with increased attractions. The art of engraving on wood 

 continues to improve, and the editor of the Mirror avails himself of this cir- 

 cumstance, not only to introduce pictures of a more ambitious character, but a 

 greater number of them. Let any one compare vol. xxxii. with vol. i., or 

 even vol. xxi. (see our Vol. IX. p. 450.). The selection of essays in vol. xxxii., 

 for 1838, now before us, is judicious, and the engravings embrace a 

 great many interesting public buildings connected with Railways, Cemeteries, 

 Public Institutions, &c, and including a portrait of the Duke of Cambridge, 

 on steel, a large folding plate of the Coronation of Queen Victoria, the State 

 Carriage of Marshal Soult, the Masonic Offering to the Duke of Sussex, the 

 Grand Coronation Firework Temple in Hyde Park, numerous Churches, 

 Chapels, &c. In short, we scarcely know a better mode in which a reading 

 gardener, who has 5s. 6d. to spare, can spend it better than in the purchase of 

 this volume. 



FRENCH. 



Catalogue des Arbres, Arbrisseaux, Arbustes, et Plantes, cultives dans les Pepi- 

 nieres et Serres des Freres Audibert, Membres et Correspondans des Societes 

 d' Horticulture de Paris, Londres, fyc, a Tonelle, pres Tarascon {Bouchcs 

 du Rhone'). Deuxieme Partie. Arbres, Arbrisseaux, et Arbustes, de pleine terre. 

 8vo, pp. 72. Paris et Marseilles, 1839. 



This is a very interesting catalogue, from the great number of names of trees 

 and shrubs which it contains. Some of these may, no doubt, be synonymes, 

 but there are a number which are probably not yet introduced to England. 

 To take the genus Crataegus, for example, we have C. brizina, C. Wat- 

 soniana, and C. Zdboub. We have seen a catalogue of the Freres Audibert 

 in which authorities were given with the names, which we should have been 

 happy to see in this catalogue. In a paragraph at the end, it is stated that 

 the Council of the department of the Bouche du Rhone has voted the esta- 

 blishment of a model and experimental farm, to be formed at Tonelle, and 

 placed under the direction of M. Audibert aine. An institution of this kind 

 in the immediate neighbourhood of so rich a nursery as that of the Freres 

 Audibert, cannot fail, we should think, to spread a knowledge of, and taste 

 for, trees and shrubs, independently of common agricultural knowledge. 



Catalogue des Plantes cultivees par M. Legrandais, a Avranches. 8vo, pp. 16. 

 Avranches, 1838. 



Local nurserymen's catalogues are not bad indexes to the taste for plants in 

 particular neighbourhoods. At Avranches, the hardy plants in most repute 

 are the Bengal and Noisette roses, of which there are nearly 400 sorts named 



