702 Catalogue of Works on Gardening, SfC. 



Hot-houses, Green-houses, Conservatories, Shrubberies, Plantations, and Borders, 

 in the Gardens of Great Britain. Also the Management of Plants in Rooms. 

 Disposed under the Generic Names of the Plants, alphabetically arranged under 

 the Heads of the Departments of Horticulture to which they belong. Sixth 

 edition, with numerous additions and improvements up to the present time. 

 By Robert Sweet, F.L.S. 8vo, pp. 762. London, 1839. 



Sweet's Botanical Cultivator is a work of established reputation, which 

 every gardener ought to possess. The present edition is brought down to the 

 present time, by the insertion of all the new genera in their proper places. 



Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis ; or an Account of the Results of Experiments 

 on the Produce and nutritive Qualities of different Grasses, fyc., used as the 

 Food of the more valuable domestic Animals, instituted by John Duke of Bed- 

 ford. Fourth edition, to which is (for the first time) added, the Weeds of 

 Agriculture. The whole revised and improved. By George Sinclair, 

 F.L.S. F.H.S., Gardener to His Grace the Duke of Bedford. 8vo, pp. 362, 

 numerous coloured plates. London, 1839. 



A cheap edition of a standard work, which no farmer ought to be without. 

 Figures of all the more important grasses are given, so admirably drawn and 

 coloured, that no person can for a moment mistake them. There are also 

 beautifully coloured figures of clover, and other herbage plants, and of some 

 of the weeds of agriculture ; a work with that title being now for the first 

 time printed with the Hortus Gramineus. Again we say, that no farmer or 

 country gentleman ought to be without this book. 



The Floral Calendar, monthly and daily, with miscellaneous Details relative to 

 Plants and Flowers, Gardens and Green-houses, Horticulture and Botany, 

 Aviaries, fyc. Compiled, selected, and arranged by James Mangles, 

 Commander R.N. Printed for private distribution. 11 coloured plates, 

 12 woodcuts. 12mo, 1839, pp. 156. 



Capt. Mangles is already so well known to the floricultural world, by the 

 great number of beautiful Australian plants which he has introduced, that any 

 thing from his pen on the subject of flowers comes with peculiar interest. 

 This work is not, however, addressed to the professional gardener, but to the 

 amateur ; and it contains simple and practical directions for keeping flowers in 

 the highest possible degree of perfection. The book is, in fact, a description, 

 illustrated by plates, of the captain's own house in Cambridge Terrace; and 

 this is such a floral gem, or rather such a temple of flowers, that his friends 

 must feel grateful to him for explaining how he has contrived to produce so 

 beautiful a result at so comparatively small an expense. As it is, he has cer- 

 tainly succeeded in forming a house, unique of its kind, as exquisitely adorned 

 with painted flowers within, as with real ones on the outside : in short, we may 

 say of it, 



" There art and nature ably are combined 

 To please the eye, and satisfy the mind." 



To return to the book, the plates are printed in colours, from wood, accord- 

 ing to the new invention of Mr. Baxter, and give a very good idea of the 

 arrangement of the flowers with regard to colours, on which so much of the 

 brilliancy of the effect produced depends ; and the binding is at once appro- 

 priate and elegant. In the end, we have only to congratulate Capt. Mangles 

 on his production, and to express a hope that other amateurs may follow his 

 example, in giving to the world the results of their own experience. — J. W. L. 



Vegetable Organography ; or an Analytical Description of the Organs of Plants. 

 By M. Aug. DeCandolle. Translated by Boughton Kingdon. Plates, 8vo. 

 No. IX., for October, 2s. 6d. London, 1839. 



We have already strongly recommended this work to the scientific gardener. 

 The translator deserves very great praise for undertaking so valuable a work, 



