592 SumniarTj View of the Progress of Gardening. 



Gazette, of which we undertook the editorship about a year ago, 

 we ceased, with the number for November 6th, to have any far- 

 ther connexion, for reasons with which it is unnecessary to trou- 

 ble our readers. The botanical periodicals mentioned in our 

 Report for last year continue to prosper, and there has been 

 added to them the Pliytologist, a cheap botanical monthly 

 journal. Downing's Theory and Practice of Landscape-Garden- 

 ing' (p. 421. and 472.) is a masterly work of its kind, more 

 especially considering that it was produced in America, where 

 landscape-gardening is necessarily in its infancy. Brande's 

 Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art (p. 177. and 599.) is 

 a work which, though not on gardening, yet every gardener 

 ought to possess who cannot afford the Penny Cyclopcedia. 

 Mrs. Loudon's Practical Instructions in Gardening for Ladies 

 has come to a second edition in the course of the year; and a 

 second edition also of her Companion to the Ladies^ Flower-Gar- 

 den is in preparation. The volume on Ornamental Bidbs is 

 completed, and that on Ornamental Perennials will be com- 

 menced on January 1st. The first number of an Abridgement 

 of our Arboretum Britannicum will appear on the 1st of De- 

 cember; and also the sixth number of our Suburban Horticidturist, 

 which was discontinued during our absence in Scotland. Our 

 Supplement to the Encyclopcedia of Plants was published in June 

 last. The most interesting work published in France in the 

 course of the year is, we think, Auguste de St. Hilaire's Lecons 

 de Botanique ; and in Germany, the completion of Endlicher's 

 Genera Plantarum, according to the natural system. 



Gardening and Rural Improvement in Foreign Countries. — 

 We have little on this subject to add to what we stated in our 

 summary for the past year (p. 630.). The state of gardening in 

 the neighbourhood of Paris may be gathered from our garden- 

 ing visit (p. 101. 287. and 383.). In Germany, the Doberan 

 meeting of German Agriculturists and Silviculturists was held 

 from the 1st to the 8th of September, when a number of papers 

 were read, and articles exhibited. "For the silvicultural section, 

 upwards of 100 different sorts of Pinus and ^'bies had been sent 

 in living specimens from the Flottbeck Nurseries, accompanied 

 with a descriptive account by Mr. John Booth, of which 1000 

 copies were distributed, and for which the president of the silvi- 

 cultural section returned a vote of thanks." {Gard. Chron.,\o\.\. 

 p. 614.) Some new plants introduced into the North of Italy in 

 the course of the year 1840 are enumerated by M. Manetti 

 (p. 182. and 565.) ; and some notices of the gardens in the United 

 States and in South America, by Edward Otto, will be found in 

 p. 379. Of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India, 

 an interesting account is given in the Gardener s Chronicle, vol. i. 



