636 Catalogue of Works on Gardening, fyc. 



serve Mr. Pamplin, and some others of the London nurserymen, advertising 

 ferns for sale. The study of ferns recommends itself in a particular manner 

 to persons living in moist districts, not only because ferns thrive best in a 

 moist climate, but because in such climates a great variety of ferns will gene- 

 rally be found indigenous; for example, Devonshire and Ayrshire. The same 

 thing may be observed of mosses and lichens. 



Rivers's Selected Catalogue of Roses, for the Autumn of 1842 and the Spring 



of 1843. 

 Lane and Sons' Catalogue of Roses for 1842-3. 

 Wood and So?is' Descriptive Catalogue of Roses, for the Autumn of 1842 and 



Spring of 1843. 

 Hooker's Catalogue of Roses for 1842-3. 



These are all delightful harbingers of spring, and they come in suitably to 

 fill up the pause that would otherwise occur between leaving off and begin- 

 ning again. We hail them, therefore, with pleasure, and strongly recommend 

 them to intending purchasers. 



The Book of the Farm, By Henry Stephens, Editor of the ' Quarterly Journal 

 of Agriculture.' Part VIII. 8vo, pp. 96. Edinburgh and London. 



The present number is the commencement of the second volume, and is il- 

 lustrated with a profusion of very well executed wood cuts. In other respects 

 the work maintains its high character. 



What can be done for English Agricidture ? A Letter to the Most Noble the 

 Marquess of Northampton, F.G.S., F.A.S., fyc. fyc, President of the Royal 

 Society. By J. F. W.Johnston, M.A., F.R.SS.L.& E., &c. Pamph. 

 8vo, pp. 39. Edinburgh, London, Durham, Dublin, and all Booksellers. 

 Price Is. 



We ought to have noticed this pamphlet before. It is a fit companion to 

 Greg's Scotch Farming, noticed in our last Number, p. 569. ; and, like it, is in 

 favour of leases of 19 or 21 years, corn rents, and payment chiefly in kind to 

 agricultural labourers. Without the first, neither capital nor skill will ever be 

 applied to agriculture to any extent, and consequently no improvement worth 

 mentioning can take place ; without a corn rent no man is safe in taking a 

 farm on lease while the present corn law exists ; and, without labourers paid 

 in kind, there can be no certainty of having workmen sufficiently fed to do the 

 work required of them, in years when the necessaries of life are dear. We do 

 not know any change that would be so much for the benefit of the English 

 agricultural labourer, as paying him in flour, potatoes, and a certain quantity 

 of butcher's meat, butter, and milk ; with something also in money to procure 

 clothes, groceries, &c. We feel confident that the advantage to the farmer 

 would be equally great. 



First Additional Supplement to the Fncyclopcedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa 

 Architecture and Furniture ; bringing down Improvements in these Arts to 

 1842. Illustrated by nearly 300 Engravings of Designs by thirty different 

 Contributors. By J. C. Loudon, F.L.S., &c. 8vo, pp. 161. London, 

 1842. 



The best mode of giving the reader an idea of what this work contains 

 will be to copy its Contents. 



" Chap. I. Cottages for Country Labourers and Mechanics, and for 

 Gardeners, Foresters, Bailiffs, and other upper out-of-door Servants in the 

 Country, including Gate-Lodges and Gates. Sect. I. Designs for Model 

 Cottages. Subs. 1. Agriculturist's Model Cottage, No. 1. Subs. 2. Agri- 

 culturist's Model Cottage, No. 2. Subs. 3. Mechanic's Model Cottage. 

 Subs. 4. Placing the Model Cottages in Rows. Subs. 5. Forming Combi- 

 nations of Dwellings of the humblest Class. Sect. II. A Selection of Plans 

 of Cottages which have been erected in different Parts of the Country. 



