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Art. VI. History and Guide for draining the Acanthus, and every 

 other Description of Ornamental Foliage, hy Rule ; tuhereby such 

 Principles and Plans are formed that any Student may become 

 his own Designer, for whatever Purpose he may require. The whole 

 planned, designed, engraved, and printed by J. Page, Ornamental 

 Draftsman, Atlas Press, Horseferry Road, Westminster. Parts I. 

 and II. pp. 481j 6 wood-cuts. 9a?. each. 



We most strongly recommend the young gardener who is anxious to be 

 able to draw by the eye, without rule and compass, to procure these little 

 works, and copy the figures in them with pencil, or with a steel pen and 

 ink. If a gardener could only foresee the immense advantage that it would 

 be to him to be able to sketch freely, and thus communicate his ideas quickly 

 and intelligibly on the spot, he would labour mornings and evenings, for months, 

 nay, for years, if necessary, to acquire so valuable a talent. Every gardener 

 can draw plans by the help of a rule and square ; but he that has cultivated 

 the power of sketching objects at sight has elevated himself to a higher region ; 

 and if to this faculty is joined a knowledge of grammar and style, elegant 

 penmanship, and good manners, he has acquired all the essentials of a gentle- 

 man, and he will be respected by his employers accordingly. There are 

 many things (for example, a knowledge of the principles of horticulture or 

 agriculture) which may be attained after the middle age ; but those which we 

 have mentioned, if not acquired in youth, cannot in general be acquired at all. 

 The time is fast approaching when every first-rate head gardener will require 

 to be a good landscape-gardener, and the being able to design a flower- 

 garden in different styles will be considered as necessary for such persons as to 

 design a cucumber frame or a mushroom shed now is. All that is wanting 

 to bring things to this state is, that the rising generation, who are all be- 

 coming scientific botanists and horticulturists (thanks to Dr. Lindley more than 

 to any other man living), shall be grown up. And why should those who 

 are capable, as has been proved by the examinations in the Horticultural 

 Society's Garden, of acquiring a high degree of scientific botanical knowledge, 

 while working all the day in the open garden, and only studying in the even- 

 ings, not be able under the same circumstances to acquire the art of sketching 

 to a high degree of perfection, and a cultivated taste in forms, lines, and 

 colours ? There is no reason why they should not, except this, that hard 

 work with garden tools must greatly injure the hand for sketching ; and this, 

 we trust, will be borne in mind by gardeners who take apprentices, and by all 

 who employ young men who are anxious to improve themselves. 



Art. VII. Ricauti's Rustic Architecture. Parts I. and II. Oblong 

 4to, 147 plates. London. 6*. each Part. 



In the introduction, the author informs us that he is " quite conscious of 

 adding but little to what has already been advanced on the subject of rural 

 cottages, &c, ; but he adds, " if that little be clothed in a somewhat novel 

 form," he hopes to escape criticism. 



" The designs herein delineated exhibit no ornament (excepting the chimney 

 shafts) but such as can easily be procured by a judicious use of the wood- 

 man's axe." From this announcement the reader will understand that all the 

 woodwork of these cottages is quite of a rustic character ; in short, even the 

 muUions to the windows and the labels over them, as well as the architraves 

 to the doors, both inside and out, are of unbarked poles. 



Part r. contains a design for a peasant's cottage, including ])lans, eleva- 

 tions, two sections, a perspective view, plans and elevations of the chimney 

 shafts to a scale of i in. to 1 ft. ; plans and elevations of windows to a larger 

 scale, and a rustic chair and table to a scale of 1 in. to 1 ft. 



