730 Gardening and Rural Improvement during 1839. 



slow, will undertake such a work, we will with pleasure relinquish 

 our intention. Should they not do so, we shall make a com- 

 mencement as soon as circumstances will permit. One work which 

 has been commenced during the year, we must very strongly re- 

 commend to our botanical readers. It is an Appendix to Edwards s 

 Botanical Register, by Dr. Lindley. It will consist of a com- 

 plete alphabetical and systematical index of names, synonymes, 

 and matter adjusted to the present state of systematic botany; 

 and, as a book of reference, will be invaluable to the botanical 

 cultivator, no less than to the man of science. Our new edition 

 of Repton's Works on Landscape- Gardening and Garden-Archi- 

 tecture, already referred to in this summary, is the only work 

 on landscape-gardening which has appeared during this or 

 the last year; and it will, we are sure, prove a valuable addition 

 to the library of every reading gardener. As an elementary 

 book, Dr. Lindley's Ladies' Botany, abridged by himself, may 

 be recommended in the strongest terms to all classes of persons ; 

 as may Westwood's Entomologist's Text Book, and Ingpen's 

 Instructions for Collecting and Rearing British Insects. 



Obituary. — Several very excellent gardeners and practical 

 botanists have died in the course of the year. The loss of Mr. 

 Hunneman (p. 208.) will be felt by botanists in every part of 

 Europe. As one of the most magnificent patrons of gardening, 

 and a truly excellent man, we have to lament the loss of the 

 Duke of Bedford, whose name will be handed down to posterity, 

 in a botanical point of view, as connected with some useful and 

 ornamental works on agricultural grasses, and on heaths, wal- 

 lows, and coniferous plants. 



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