92 Catalogue of Works on Gardenings Sfc. 



This sort has been grown by our family for nine or ten years, and by a 

 few friends who have received plants from us in the spring, not having seed for 

 distribution. It is rather shy in producing seed ; I believe my father has 

 not been able to save any for several years, which is one reason the sort is so 

 little known, and so sparingly given to the public, and until last year it was not 

 to be had of any seedsman. Messrs. Brown, at Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, had 

 a small quantity of seed of the red sort; and Mr. J. Lane, nurseryman and seeds- 

 man of Great Berkhamstead, Herts, informs me, he has been fortunate enough 

 to save a small quantity of seed of the white sort, by planting a few plants given 

 to him by me on a south border, and he intends sending it out this spring 

 at 2s. 6d. per packet. 



1 hope my brother gardeners will endeavour to procure this sort as soon as 

 possible, and save seed from it, so that it may soon get into the hands of all 

 seedsmen. 



Kitchen-Garden, Jskridge, Dec. 1839. 



REVIEWS. 



Art. I. Catalogue of Works on Gardening, Agriculture, Botany, 

 Rural Architecture, &;c., lately published, "with some Account of 

 those considered the more interesting. 



The Theory/ of Horticulture ; or, an Attempt to Explain the Principial Oj]e- 

 rations of Gardening upon Physiological Principles. By John Lindiey, Ph.D. 

 - F.R.S., &c. 8vo, pp. 387, numerous woodcuts. London, 1840. 



The name of the author is a sufficient guarantee for the excellence of this 

 work, which will henceforth be considered essential to the library of every 

 gardener, young and old. It combines the essence of all that has been written 

 by Mr. Knight on vegetable physiology, and of much that has appeared in 

 other works, foreign and domestic, together with the author's experience, 

 observation, and reasoning. This book. Dr. Lindley's Introduction to Botany, 

 Kollar's Insects, and the Second Part, containing the Natural Arrangement, 

 of our Horfus Brifannicus, form a garden library that may be said to contain 

 the essence of every other book that a gardener can want. 



A Treatise on Insects injurious to Gardeners, Forestei'S, and Fminers. By 

 Vincent KoUar, Curator of the Royal Cabinet of Natural History at 

 Vienna, and Member of many learned Societies. Translated from the 

 German, and illustrated with engravings, by J. and M. Loudon. With 

 Notes by J. O. Westwood, Esq., F.L.S., &c., Secretary to the Entomo- 

 logical Society. Small 8vo, pp. 377, numerous woodcuts. London, 1840, 

 We have announced this work as forthcoming in our preceding volume, and 

 also strongly recommended it there, having perused great part of it in manu- 

 script. The treatise is exceedingly valuable in itself from the many original 

 observations which it contains, and which are not to be found in any other 

 work whatever ; and this value is greatly increased to the English reader by 

 the notes of Mr. Westwood ; and to the practical gardener, forester, and 

 farmer, by the numerous and beautiful wood-engravings. The value of the 

 word to practical men may be judged of by the following summary of its con- 

 tents : — 



Introduction. On the advantages of studying entomology by the gar- 

 dener, agriculturist, and forester, and on the method of doing so. Sketch 

 of insects, and their classification, transformations, food, distribution and 

 habitat, uses, means of defence against. — Section I. Subsect. 1. Insects 

 which do not live on the body, but are troublesome from their attacks on 

 man, containing 13 articles. 2. Insects which live on domestic animals, 

 containing 9 articles. 3. Insects, not parasitical, but which sometimes 



