Catalogue of Works on Gardening, Sfc. 625 



2. Climbing roses, blooming in June, July, and August ; and 3. Perpetual, or 

 autumnal, roses, which blow from June till November ; occupying only 

 twenty-four pages. It may be sent by post for twopence. 



A Manual of the British Alga;; contaiiiing Generic and Specific Descriptions of all 

 the known British Species of Sea-iveeds, and of Confervce, both Marine and 

 Freshwater. By the Honourable William Henry Harvey. 8vo, pp.216 

 London, 1841. ^^ 



The introduction to this work, occupying 37 pages, is one of the most in- 

 structive and agreeable dissertations on botanical classification that we have 

 ever read, and can hardly fail to interest persons in the study of J'lgse who 

 had previously paid but little attention to these vegetables. We regret that 

 our limits do not admit of our quoting from it. 



A Catalogue of Plants collected in the Neighbourhood of Banbury. By George 

 Gulliver, F.R.S., F.L.S., Assistant Surgeon to the Royal Regiment of 

 Horse Guards. 12mo, pp. 37. London, Cambridge, and Banbury, 1841. 



The arrangement is according to the Linnsean system, and we regret to say 

 that there is nothing added to the names and the habitats to create an interest 

 in the plants. Should the work come to a second edition, we recommend the 

 author to take a hint from the Flora of Berwick upon Tweed. 



A few Hints on Root-Pruning of Pear and other Trees, ivith a Descriptive Cata- 

 logue of Fruits. By T. Rivers, Jun., of Sawbridgeworth. 

 The catalogue of fruits we have noticed at length, and favourably, in our 

 preceding volume, p. 263. The Hints on] Root-Pruning are excellent, and 

 may be applied to shrubs and ornamental trees, which it is desired to throw 

 into flower, as well as to fruit trees. The practice is of great antiquity; but 

 it was revived bj' the late Mr. Beattie of Scone, about thirty years ago, and its 

 great importance has recently been ably shown by Mr. Errington in this 

 Magazine, and Mr. Rivers in the Hort. Trans., and in the present" pamphlet. 



The Kitchen-Garden; extracted, by permission, from The British Almanac of the 

 Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge for the Year 1837. 12mo, 

 pp.30. London, 1841. 



Cheap enough, but too concise to be of much use as a separate work. 



The Farmer's Encyclopcedia, and Dictionary of Rural Affairs. Illustrated by 

 Wood-Engravings of the best and most improved Agricidtural Implements, S^c. 

 Forming one of the Series of Fncyclopcedias and Dictionaries now iii course of 

 Publication. By Cuthbert W. Johnson, Esq., Barrister at Law ; Correspond- 

 ing Member of the Maryland Horticultural Society ; Author of several of 

 the Prize Essays of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, and other 

 Agricultural Works ; Editor of the " Farmer's Almanack," &c. Parts L and 

 IL for September and October. 8vo, pp. 128. London, 1841. 



This promises to be a very useful work. The history of agriculture is good ; 

 but, in our opinion, there is rather too much said on common plants and weeds. 

 After every botanic name which forms the heading of an article, the natural 

 order ought to have been given, as telling more to any person that has even 

 the slightest degree of knowledge of plants according to that system than a 

 page of words. 



The Journal of the Royal Agricidtural Society of England. Vol. II. Part IL 



London, 1841. 



This excellent journal maintains its high character (see p. 79.) for science 

 and practical usefulness. The first article, on the past and present state of 

 agriculture in Northumberland, is very interesting, as showing the great progress 

 which has been made in agriculture and general civilisation in that county 

 since the middle of the last century, when " the king's writ could not run 



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