570 Catalogue of Works on Gardening, <$~c. 



notwithstanding an abolition of all protective duties. I am confident the 

 agricultural produce of England, Wales, and the West of Scotland, might be 

 doubled; and that of Lancashire and Cheshire be tripled, and this without 

 any material addition to the agricultural population." 



Cottage Residences ; or, a Series of Designs for Rural Cottages and Cottage- 

 Villas, and their Gardens and Grounds, adapted to North America. By 

 A. I. Downing, Author of a " Treatise on Landscape-Gardening." 8vo, 

 pp. 187, illustrated by numerous Engravings. New York and London, 



1842. 



The author of this work seems to have taken for his model our Suburban 

 (Architect, and Landscape^) Gardener. Like it, the Cottage Residences contains 

 a series of designs for residences of moderate extent, with plans for laying out 

 the gardens, lists of trees and shrubs for planting them, general directions for 

 their culture and management, and remarks on the principles of culture and 

 of design and taste on which the whole is founded. Throughout, the author 

 gives evidence of his having studied architecture as an art founded on 

 principles (p. 10.), and he has produced a number of very handsome de- 

 signs, not faultless, any more than ours are, but calculated to convey 

 ideas of what cottage residences are susceptible of. We rather wonder that 

 the geometric style of laying out grounds is not in higher esteem in the 

 United States, because we should suppose that, where there is so much natural 

 woody scenery, it would be desirable frequently to introduce the geometric 

 style as forming the greatest contrast to it. Perhaps the reason may be, that 

 this style is better adapted for extensive places, than for such as consist of only 

 a few acres ; or, perhaps, the idea of following the taste now prevalent in 

 Europe may be, like other fashions, all powerful. Be these things as they 

 may, we consider Mr. Downing's book highly creditable to him, as a man of 

 taste and an author; and it cannot fail to be of great service in adding to the 

 comforts, and improving the taste, of the citizens of the United States. A 

 Jarge edition of Mr. Downing's Treatise on Landscape-Gardening, noticed 

 in our Volume for 1841, p. 421., has, we are informed, been already sold; 

 which affords a most gratifying proof of the progress of refinement in a coun- 

 try where refinement seems to be the chief moral want. 



The Botanical Looker-out among the ivild Flowers of the 'Fields, Woods, and 

 Mountains of England and Wales ; forming a familiar Monthly Guide for the 

 collecting Botanist. Interspersed ivith pictorial Glances, botanising Incidents, 

 and Notices of many remarkable Localities of the rarer and most interesting 

 English and Welsh Plants. By Edwin Lees, F.L.S., &c. Post 8vo, 

 pp.376. London and Cheltenham, 1842. 



The object of the author is to " be in some degree useful, in attracting the 

 many to the pleasures afforded by the examination of plants in their wild 

 localities ;" and for this purpose his work is divided into months. There 

 cannot be a doubt as to the good that such a book is calculated to effect, by 

 calling forth and nourishing one of the most rational and perpetually interest- 

 ing tastes, and there seems no better plan of effecting this than that which he 

 has adopted. The author seems precisely the sort of person that ought to 

 write such a book, being a man of leisure, who pursues botany as a recreation, 

 and not as a professor or a botanical author. Of course, the interest which 

 he can throw into it depends, not only on botanical knowledge, and particularly 

 that of our indigenous flora, but on his knowledge of country matters 

 generally, and of poetry and history. From a cursory glance at the volume, 

 the author does not seem deficient in any of these requisites. Every large 

 town, or at least every county, ought to have such a work written on it, and 

 we would not confine ourselves to indigenous plants, but include also foreign 

 Bpecies, either in cultivation or planted in parks and pleasure-grounds, as rare 



