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classification and description. Tliis second edition contains 17 new articles 

 on culture, and more than 200 descriptions of new varieties. The total num- 

 ber described in the work is 308, all of which are in possession of the author, 

 and cultivated by him in the Rue de I'Arcade in Paris, to a very high degree 

 of perfection. This we can testify, having seen them, in company with the 

 author, in July last. Besides these 308 named kinds, the Abbe has numerous 

 seedlings which have not yet flowered, and which will furnish food for new 

 names, and future editions of the Monograph. The work has been in exten- 

 sive demand both in Europe and America, and has been translated into Eng- 

 lish, German, and Russian. More in its favour it is unnecessary to say. 



Art. VIII. A Treatise on Agriculture and Dairy Husbandry. By 

 James Jackson, author of various Prize Essays of the Highland 

 and Agricultural Society of Scotland. 8vo, pp. 116, numerous 

 woodcuts. Edinburgh, copyright work published in connexion 

 with People's Editions by W. and R. Chambers ; London, Orr and 

 Co. ; 1840. 25. Qd, 



This is an epitome of the whole art of British field culture, drawn up 

 with great skill and care by an author evidently well acquainted with the lite- 

 rature of agriculture, as well as its science and practice. We can safely 

 venture to affirm that there is no modern work on the same subject so good 

 and so cheap. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. L General Notices. 



The skilled Gardener vises in his position and means as horticultural science 

 multiplies its inventions. The gardener who was once a mere labourer 

 becomes the director of labourers. The work of his hands diminishes, and 

 that of his brain increases, and brings him a better remuneration. He is ad- 

 vanced above his poor fellow-labourer, whose bones and sinews have to com- 

 pete with the spade, the mattock, and the wheelbarrow. The unskilled 

 gardener has to stand the brunt of ceaseless improvements and changes, which 

 press him downwards, while they heave others upwards. It may still be the 

 fact that the condition of the labouring gardener is much above that of his 

 forefather ; but, then, how changed is the whole state of society ! If abso- 

 lutely better, he is comparatively worse. And, moreover, if he be not edu- 

 cated in the mode that would most benefit him, there is a kind of education 

 continually going on which is not lost upon him. There ought not to exist 

 in this country a numerous race of unskilled gardeners or labourers of any 

 description. So long as it does exist, we are treading upon gunpowder. The 

 permanent safety of society, through all its ranks, and in all its institutions, 

 is contingent upon the instruction of the poorer classes. Everyone should be 

 put in training to become a skilled, instead of an unskilled, labourer, by which 

 alone he can be put in the way to avail himself of that common heritage of 

 improvement from which he is now excluded. (Morn. Ckron., Sept. 10. adapted.) 



Preservaiion of Grain or Seeds. — At the Academy of Sciences, Paris, 

 July 28th, M. Granier addressed to the Academy an explanation of his method 

 of preserving corn for long periods. The corn was well winnowed, and put 

 in a vessel or room perfectly free from damp, the external air excluded, and 

 then sulphuric acid introduced by means of burning sulphur within, as is done 

 in this country for whitening peeled wickerwares. If many insects should be 

 found to be destroyed by this method, pulverised charcoal should be mixed 

 with the corn to obviate the effects of putrefaction. M. Granier had kept corn 



