. 298 Catalogue of Works on Gardening, %c. 



apology for not having sooner acknowledged the receipt of the copy he kindly 



sent us above a year ago. 



The Rose Amaleur's Guide, Sfc . By T. Rivers, jun. Second edition, greatly 



enlarged. Small 8vo, pp. 183. London, 1840. 



The present is a greatly improved edition of a work which we have com- 

 mended in our volume for 1838, p. 94. It is here in a more portable form, 

 with various additions, and with a valuable " Abridged List of Roses, adapted 

 for Amateurs possessing small Gardens, or for those beginning to form a Col- 

 lection ; selected so as to give the leading Variations of Colour." We can- 

 not sufficiently commend Mr. Rivers for having given this abridged list ; for 

 the long columns of names in the catalogues of the rose nurseries, both French 

 and English, are quite appalling. It appears from Mr. Rivers's abridged list 

 that the essence of all the cultivated roses may be included in twenty-five sec- 

 tions, including 185 sorts. Allowing 2 square feet for each sort, a bed 40 ft. 

 by 10 ft. would contain a representative system of all the roses in cultivation. 



Descrkione dei Funghi Mangerecci jiiu communi deW Italia, e de' Velenosi che 

 possono cd medesimi confondersi, i$~c. Description of the eatable Fungi less 

 common in Italy, and of the poisonous Sorts which are most liable to be 

 confounded with them. By Carlo Vittadini, M.D. 4to, pp.364., with 

 44 coloured plates. Milan, 1833. 



To those who study the fungi this must be a very valuable work, and we 

 believe that there are but few copies of it in England. The plates are very 

 beautifully engraved on copper from drawings by Vittadini from nature, and they 

 are most carefully coloured. It would be an interesting and useful task, for a 

 gardening amateur resident in Italy, to try how far all the edible sorts enume- 

 rated in Vittadini's book might be cultivated in a garden ; and afterwards their 

 spawn might be sent to England for the same trials here. 



Verhandlungen der K. K. Landwirthschafts- Gesellschaft in Wien, Sfc . Transac- 

 tions of the Imperial and Royal Agricultural Society of Vienna, &c. Vol. 

 VIII. Part II. 8vo, pp. 146. Vienna, 1840. 

 An article on the different modes and times of felling timber, and one on the 



vineyards of Austria, may be interesting to some of our readers. 



Transactions of the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. Vol. LII. 



Part II. 8vo, pp. 173. to 409., one 8vo and three folding plates. London, 



1839. 



The agricultural articles in this part are, On Improvements in the Culture 

 of the Cambridge Fens, and on the Cultivation of Potatoes from Seed. Drain- 

 ing with a steam-engine, and improving the outfall of rivers in the manner al- 

 luded to in our volume for 1839, p. 363., have enabled the occupiers of fen 

 lands to avail themselves of the valuable strata of clay and marl which are 

 now accessible at a very short depth from the surface, and by which a new 

 and most advantageous system of farming has been introduced. The practice 

 of spreading clay and marl upon the surface of fen, moss, or peat bog has long 

 been in use in Scotland, as shown in Steel's History of Peat Moss ; and it is 

 now practised generally on the great Bedford Level in Cambridgeshire, which 

 contains upwards of 300,000 acres. The quantity laid on is about 200 cubic 

 yards per acre ; it is thrown out of the pits or subsoil by hand with the spade, 

 and the total expense is from 30s. to TOs. per acre. 



W. Buchanan, Esq., of Chalk Lodge, near Cheshunt, sowed Potato Seeds in 

 April, 1836, the tubers produced by which were taken up in October of the 

 same year, and replanted the following spring. In the autumn of the second 

 year an excellent crop was obtained of tubers of very good size; thus showing, 

 that, by means ot transplanting the seedlings and giving them abundance of room 

 in good light rich soil, a tolerable crop may be obtained the first year, and a 

 very good crop the second. 



An Analysis of the East Window of Carlisle Cathedral, by Mr. Billings, is 



