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The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Bulbous Plants. By Mrs. Loudon. 

 No. I. 4to, pp. \6.; 3 coloured plates, containing 20 figures of bulbous- 

 rooted plants. London, 1840, Price 2s. 6d. 



In pursuance of the plan which we announced in our preceding volume 

 (p. 729.) when speaking of the Ladies' Flower-Garden, the Ornamental Annuals 

 are no sooner finished than the Ornamental Bulbous Plants are commenced. 

 The number before us is an admirable specimen, both in regard to its letter- 

 press and its plates. The first plate is entirely devoted to the genus /Vis ; 

 the second to the genus Morae'« ; and the third to Herbertza, Cypella, Phalo- 

 callis, and Vieusseuxk. Bulbous plants, taken individually, are generally stiff 

 erect objects, which one would suppose could not be very readily brought to- 

 gether so as to form elegant groups ; but the fallaciousness of this opinion is 

 demonsti'ated by these plates, in which, while every individual species is true 

 to nature, we have each group equally true to the principles of pictorial com- 

 bination. The bulbous department, therefore, of the Ladies' Flower-Garden 

 promises to equal, if not to surpass, that devoted to annuals. 



It is calculated that this volume will be completed in about the same number 

 of parts as the Annuals, after which the Ornamental Perennials will be com- 

 menced. 



Fruit Trees ; a Handbook for Cultivators. Being a practical Exposition of the 

 Ai't of pruning Fruit Trees ; showing the Defects and Difficulties of modern 

 Practice, with prop)osed Remedies ; including Advice and Liformation, founded 

 on long Expei'ience and extensive Observation. By a practical Observer. 

 12mo, pp. 119. London, 1840. 



An excellent little work, by a well-known author ; alike admired for his 

 scientific knowledge, and his extensive experience in the practice of what he 

 teaches. Why he has not given his name we are at a loss to conceive ; since 

 it would have prevented his book from being confounded with other anony- 

 mous productions equally cheap, but so far inferior in point of merit, that, 

 were it not for the harshness of the term, we should call them worthless. Ge- 

 nerally speaking, we recommend our readers to purchase no practical work of 

 any kind which has not the author's name attached. With works purely ar- 

 gumentative this is of no consequence ; and, indeed, the name may often tend to 

 obstruct the free exercise of thought : but, with those giving directions for ma- 

 naging a garden or a farm, or for treating cattle or live stock, the first step, in 

 our opinion, is to know what degree of confidence is to be placed in the author. 

 The key to this degree of confidence is the author's real name. 



A Method of pruning and training Standard Apple Trees, By James Clark, 

 Gardener to the Earl of Lonsdale, Castle Gardens, Whitehaven. Pamph. 

 12mo, pp. 8, with a plate. Whitehaven, 1839. 



The great object in the " windy part of the kingdom," where the author is 

 situated, is to keep the trees as low as possible, and the wood not crowded, but 

 in straight and stiff ascending and spreading shoots. These objects he attains 

 by thinning and shortening in the manner performed in the London Horticul- 

 tural Society's Gardens, with the apple trees in the borders of the orchard ; 

 and also, as Mr. Clark informs us, as performed in the Experimental Garden, 

 Edinburgh, when under the direction of Mr. Barnett. 



A desaiptive Catalogue of Fruits cultivated by T, Rivers, Jun,, at his Nurseries, 

 Sawbridge worth, Herts, with the Prices of Fruit Trees. Pamph. imp. 8vo, 

 pp. 16, London, 1840. 



A descriptive Catalogue of Pears cidtivated by T. Rivers, Jim., Src pp. 4. 



[The following is from a correspondent who has paid great attention to the 

 subject of fruits.] 



The descriptive fruit catalogue of Mr. Rivers is a commendable innovation 

 upon the usual form of nurserymen's lists, which have hitherto been little or 



