Catalogue of the Birmingham Botanic Garden. 413 



that melon and cucumber plants require no shading, except when 

 very weak, or newly planted ; provided, however, that plenty of 

 air is admitted when the sun shines. 

 Cossey Hall Gardens, Dec. 28. 1838. 



REVIEWS. 



Art. I. Catalogue qf Plants cultivated in the Birmingham Botanic 

 Garden, arranged according to the Natural and Linncean System ; 

 together with their Systematic and English Name, native Country^ 

 Time of Introduction, the Soil in which they thrive best, and where 

 figured: also, a copious List qf Synonymes, collected from the best 

 Authorities. Pamph. 8vo, pp. 16. Birmingham. 



This catalogue has no date, but we presume it to have been printed in 

 1838, certain species being omitted in it which we lately saw in the garden. 

 It contains the trees and shrubs arranged according to De Candolle's Prodro- 

 mus, as far as Crataegus inclusive. We much regret that this catalogue was 

 not put into our hands till we were just leaving the garden, otherwise we 

 think we could have shown that some of the names put down in it as species are 

 only varieties. For example, in p. 1. Magnolia maxima Loci. Cat., which is only 

 a variety of M. acuminata L. ; and, in the last two pages, Crataegus ovalis Dec, 

 C. elliptica Ait., C. caroliniana Loci. Cat., C. salicifolia L., C. linearis Dec, 

 and C. jorunifolia Willd., which, as well as several others, are all varieties of 

 C. Crus-galli L. ; and C. xanthocarpa Hort., C. prae v cox Swt., C. OWvevidna 

 Bosc, C. eriocarpa Lindl., C. monogyna Jacq., and C. melanocarpa Willd., and 

 others, which are only varieties of the common hawthorn. For proofs we 

 refer to the article Crataegus in our Arboretum Britannicum, at the end of 

 which are two lists, which we beg leave to quote for the benefit of all those 

 who have purchased collections of Crataegus from Messrs. Loddiges, 

 previously to the autumn of 1837, at which time the plants of Crataegus in 

 the Hackney arboretum were replanted, and some changes then took place 

 in the application of the names. We have also observed, in one or two 

 collections received from Messrs. Loddiges, that some names have been 

 inadvertently tied to the wrong trees ; for example, in the Sheffield Botanic 

 Garden, C. maroccana, which is a variety of C. Azarblus, is applied to a 

 variety, if our recollection is correct, of C. coccinea. 



" App. hi. Alphabetical List of Sorts of Cratce^gus in the Arboretum o, 

 Messrs. Loddiges, as given in their Catalogue, 16th edition, 1836 ; with some 

 Additions, taken from the names placed against Plants in their Nursery, but 

 not in the Catalogue ; referred to the Species and Varieties of Cratce s gus as 

 given in this xuork. 



" The use of this list is to assist persons who have purchased collections of 

 Crataegus from Messrs. Loddiges, according to the names of the 15th and 

 16th editions of their Catalogue, 1833 and 1836, in identifying them with our 

 names. Most of the collections of Crataegus, not only in Britain but on the 

 Continent, having been procured from the Hackney arboretum, we think this 

 list will be of considerable utility both to nurserymen and amateurs. It is 

 proper to observe, that the numerous synonymes in this list, and in that 

 following (App. iv.), arise from the circumstance of Messrs. Loddiges col- 

 lecting annually, from all quarters, whatever appears from the name to be a 

 new sort, and growing the plants with the names attached to them which 

 were received with them, for two or three years, till it has been clearly proved 



