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3593. MILTO^N/^ Candida var. flavescens Bot. Mag. 3793. 



Only differing from the species in having a yellowish white lip. (^Bot. Mag., 

 April.) 



3597. MONACHA'NTHUS [t. 3796. 



r6seo-albus Hook, rose and white £ O or 2 ap R.w Brazil 1839. O s.p Bot. mag. 



An orchideous plant from Brazil, with long racemes of curiously shaped 

 flowers, the lip of which is edged with long deep red fringe. After describ- 

 ing the species, Sir W. J. Hooker observes that he has " preserved the 

 generic name of Monachanthus, rather from consistency than a conviction 

 of the soundness of the genus. It might, with greater propriety, be called 

 Catasetum sect. Monachanthus." (^Bot. Mag., May.) 



3728. ODONTOGLO'SSUM 



maculatum Lindl. spotted £ □ ot 2 au Y.B Mexico 1839. O r.w.p Bot, reg. 1840, 30. 



This species, Dr. Lindley observes, appears to be " one of the prettiest of 

 the family, because of its large two-coloured spotted flowers and drooping 

 habit, and it seems to have much the manner of growth and constitution of 

 an Oncidium." (^Bot, Reg., May.) 



Cleisostema macjilhsa. A vanda-like plant, with small yellowish brown and 

 pink fleshy blossoms. {B. R. M., No. 67., May). 



REVIEWS. 



Art. I. Catalogue of WorJcs on Gardening, Agricidture, Botany, 

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

 considered the more i7iteresiing. 



Le Bon Jardinie)' ; Almajiach pour VAnnee 1840. Par A. Poiteau et Vil- 

 morin. 8vo, pp. 1055, two engraved plates. Paris, 1840. 



Another edition of one of the best standard works on gardening and agri- 

 culture published in Europe. The body of the work is stereotyped, and the 

 additions annually made form introductions, sometimes of two or three sheets, 

 and sometimes of only a few pages. In the present edition they extend to 

 forty-seven pages, and their essence is as under : — 



. Artichoke roots may be preserved through the winter in a cellar, or in a 

 heap of dry sand thatched, and replanted in spring. Trops^olum tuberosum is 

 worth cultivating. Celeri-rave frise and Chou-rave a feuilles decoupees are new 

 varieties of turnip-rooted celery and borecole. Chou de Billaudeau (see Gard. 

 Mag. for 1839, p. 568.) is nothing more than the chou colossal. Courge 

 sucriere du Bresil is a new and excellent gourd. E'chalote de Jersey, known 

 in Scotland as the Russian shallot, and E'chalote grosse de M. Houtton are 

 recommended. Myatt's pine and Elton's seedling strawberrj'. Haricot noir de 

 Belgique, and several other plants well known in British gardens, but still rare 

 in France, are described ; and a few plants, such as the sweet potato, better 

 known in France than in England, are enumerated, and their merits discussed. 

 The civilisation of the wild carrot by M. Vilmorin has been recorded before, 

 and we have here a notice of two essays to improve the dandelion and the 

 wild parsnep. The dandehon was blanched by covering the plants with 

 sand. Four new sorts of potato are described ; seven sorts of clover, and a 

 number of wheats and other agricultural plants, t/rtica nlvea L,. has been 

 tried as a thread plant ; and ^'bies [Picea] Pinscqw Bois. (see our volume 

 for 1839, p. 339.) is described as having the seminal leaves more numerous by 

 one or two than those of the common silver fir, and also longer, narrower, 

 less flat, and not at all prickly-poinled like those of P. cephalonica. 



Among the new instruments are the gardener's compass, invented by Ma- 

 dame Adanson ; a watering-pot, for watering pots on shelves over head ; a 

 hand-bill for cutting box edgings, instead of shears ; and some others, already 



