262 Catalogue of IVotks on Gardening, 8jc. 



REVIEWS. 



Art. I. Catalogue of Works on Gardening, Ag7'iculture, Botany, 

 Rural Architecture, 8^c., lately published, toith some Account of 

 those considered the more interesting. 



The Landscape-Gardening and Landscape-Architecture of the late Humphry 

 Repton, Esq. ; being his entire Works on these Sicbjects. A neiv Edition, with 

 a Historical and Scientific Introduction, a Systemcitic Analysis, a Biographical 

 Notice, Notes, and a copious Alphabetical Index. By J. C. Loudon, F.L.S., 

 &c. Originally published in one folio and three quarto volumes, and now 

 comprised in one volume, 8vo, illustrated by upwards of 250 engravings. 

 8vo, pp. 619. London, 1840. 30i-. plain; 3/. Qs. coloured. 



We announced the appearance of the first number of this work in our pre- 

 ceding volume (p. 466.). It is now completed, and forms one of the best 

 practical guides for the young or amateur landscape-gardener extant. There 

 are, doubtless, a number of our readers who have perused the works of Whately, 

 the two Masons, Gerardin, and Uvedale Price, and to these we may appeal for 

 the truth of what we assert as to the practical nature of Mr. Repton's writings. 

 The truth is, that, by the number of engravings which they contain, they address 

 themselves to the eye at once ; and a general idea may be formed of the nature 

 of landscape improvement by merely turning over the pages, and looking at the 

 engravings. We do not know a book better adapted for a di-awingroom than 

 a coloui'ed copy of this work ; not only from the beauty of the pages, but from 

 the interest excited by the views or vignettes, which exhibit portraits, before 

 and after improvement, of upwards of two hundred of the most remarkable 

 country residences in England. The coloured copies we consider as exqui- 

 sitely beautiful, and particularly those which have been done at Bayswater, 

 under our own inspection, 



A portrait of the late Mr. Repton, by Hall, from an original drawing by 

 Shelley, is prefixed to the work ; which Mr. Repton's family, we are happy to 

 say, consider a better likeness of their father than that published in his lifetime 

 as a frontispiece to his quarto volume, entitled Observations on the Theory and 

 Practice of Landsccqoe-Gardening. The biographical notice, which occupies 

 twenty-two pages, will be read with intense interest, as showing Mr, Repton 

 to have been a highly enlightened and most benevolent man. 



The Ladies' Floioer-Garden of Ornamental Annuals. By Mrs. Loudon, Il- 

 lustrated by forty-eight carefully coloured plates, containing upwards of 

 300 figures of the most showy and interesting annual flowers. 4to, pp. 272. 

 London, 1840. 21. 2s. cloth ; 21. 10s. half-bound in morocco, gilt tops. 



This elegant volume being now completed, we have only to repeat the ex- 

 pression of our warmest approbation of the plan and of the manner in which it 

 has been executed. The tasteful grouping, the truth of imitation, both in 

 forms and colours, of the plants figured, have been maintained throughout ; and 

 the letterpress is every way worthy of the plates. With the last number is 

 given an index of English and scientific names, the latter being accented; a 

 glossary of terms, including all such as are in general use, though not clearly 

 understood ; for example, awned, disk, embryo, fibrils, floral leaves, &c. ; a 

 list of authorities and books referred to ; the contents, arranged systemati- 

 cally, each order forming a chapter ; and, lastly, a list of plates, with the Eng- 

 lish and scientific names of the plants figured in each. The total number of 

 plants figured is 310, which, being purchasable for 21. 2s., is only a fraction 

 more than three halfpence for each figure. We feel confident that there is not 

 extant another work relative to botany or gardening, in which elegance, eco- 

 nomj', and utility are combined in such an eminent degree ; and, happily, the 

 success of the work has been proportionate to its merits. 



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