322 Catalogue of Works on Gardening, $c. 



gardeners and nurserymen having collections of trees and shrubs, who pos- 

 sess neither the abridgement of the Arboretum, nor the large edition. 



The Booh of the Farm. By Henry Stephens, Esq., Editor of the " Quarterly 

 Journal of Agriculture." Parts II. to V. 8vo, plates, and numerous 

 woodcuts. 1842. 



We noticed Part i. of this work in p. ] 25., and the parts before us more than 

 justify the anticipations we there expressed. The Book of the Farm is, in 

 short, an excellent, and, in many respects, an original work. We cannot give 

 our readers a better idea of it than by continuing our list of the articles which 

 the parts before us contain: — 15. Of dealing with the Details of Farming, 

 p. 97. Winter. 16. Of the Steading, or Farmstead ; there are various details 

 of construction and fittings-up in this article, clearly and beautifully illustrated 

 by woodcuts. 17. Of the Farm-house. 18. Of the Persons who labour the 

 Farm. 19. Of the Weather in Winter. 20. Of Climate. 21. Of observing and 

 recording Facts. 22. Of Soils and Subsoils. 23. Of Enclosures and Shelter. 

 24. Of the Planting of Thorn Hedges. 25. Of the Plough. 26. Of the va- 

 rious Modes of Ploughing ridges, p. 464. 



The History and Management of Bees, with a Notice of a newly constructed 

 Hive. By John Wighton, Gardener to Lord Stafford. ]2mo, pp.103. 

 London and Norwich, 1842. 



Mr. Wighton has had great experience and great success in the management 

 of bees ; and this little work is the result. The newly constructed hive is on 

 the Polish principle, which we can recommend from our own experience, as 

 giving far less trouble than any other, both in general management and in 

 taking the honey. We have given an account of the common Polish hive in 

 the Encyclopcedia of Gardening. Mr. Wighton's improvement on it consists 

 chiefly in dividing it into two compartments, and introducing two panes of 

 glass for the purpose of observing the proceedings of the bees. The great 

 advantage of the Polish hive over those in common use is, that honey may be 

 taken from it, when there is any to spare, without disturbing the bees, since it 

 is done in the finest part of a sunny day, when most of the bees are out. 

 We would strongly recommend a trial of these hives, and more especially as 

 they may be made by any carpenter out of the trunk of a tree. Mr. Wighton's 

 consists of the root end of a spruce fir, 9 ft. long, and 3 ft. 9 in. in circum- 

 ference, from which the centre wood has been hollowed out. In many parts 

 of Scotland, where the disease called pumping prevails among larch trees, ex- 

 cellent Polish hives may be had, almost ready made. Again, we strongly 

 recommend the hive and Mr. Wighton's book to all who keep bees, and more 

 especially to gentlemen's gardeners. 



Railway Stations : being the executed Designs of Francis Thompson, Architect, 

 made by express Commission for the Directors of the North-Midland Railway, 

 tinder the Direction of Robert Stephenson, Esq., C.E. Folio, 9 plates. 

 London, 1841. 



The public is much indebted to the North-Midland Railway Company for the 

 surpassingly beautiful examples of station-houses which they have erected on 

 their lines of railroad. We know of nothing equal to them on the lines of 

 any other company. There is not one of them that would not form a highly 

 ornamental dwelling in a park. They are, for the most part, executed in 

 stone in the most substantial manner ; and the book, containing beautiful 

 engravings of them on a large scale, may well be strongly recommended to 

 landed proprietors, as affording valuable hints for the erection of ornamental 

 cottages on their estates. We can answer for the competency of Mr. 

 Thompson to design such cottages, having been fortunately able to induce him 

 to contribute no fewer than six designs to the Supplement to our Encyclopcedia 

 of Cottage Architecture. 



