Catalogue of Works on Gardening, 8fc. 313 



1842. Extracted from the " Mag. Nat. Hist.," and from the " Annals 



and Mag. Nat. Hist." 



There are many plants enumerated in this catalogue that would form very 

 desirable additions to the British garden. Among the trees and shrubs there 

 are several, which, if they have been introduced, are now lost, or rare, and 

 of these we shall give a list under our Arboricultural Notices. 



Thorburri's Catalogue of Kitchen-Garden, Herb, Flower, Tree, and Grass Seeds, 

 Bidbous Flower Roots, Greehouse Plants ; Gardening, Agricultural, and Bo- 

 tanical Books, Gardening Tools, S^c, for 1843. 12mo, pp.68. New York. 



Parsons and Co.'s Catalogue of Fruit and Forest Trees, Ornamental Shrubs, 

 Plants, Sfc.,for 1843. 8vo, pp. 40. New York. 



Rendle's Catalogue of choice Geraniums, Dahlias, Tansies, Fuchsias, Calceo- 

 larias, Greenhouse, Hothouse, and Herbaceous Plants, Camellias, i$-c., for 18i'3. 

 12mo, pp. 25. Plymouth. 

 Each of these catalogues is a very copious list of the plants and seeds of 



commerce. 



Timely Hints, addressed to the Landlords aiid Tenantry of England, Scotland, 

 and Ireland ; showing, in a few Words, the only obvious, easy, and certain 

 Means hy which they can severally continue to derive and pay fair Rents from 

 the Soil, under the present certain, and prospective piossible. Depreciation 

 in Value of British rural productive Industry, Sfc. S^c. By their " Country 

 Cousin." Pamph. 8vo. pp. 46. London, 1843. 



According to this author the present backward state of agriculture is 

 mainly owing to the well-known incapacity of lawyers as managers of landed 

 property ; and his remedy consequently is, the employment of resident 

 stewards or agents, who have received a competent, general, and professional 

 education. The pamphlet contains a great variety of quotations, authorities, 

 and opinions, all bearing on the subject of the title, and tending to show that 

 all the present difficulties of landlords and tenants are to be overcome by 

 superior cultivation. 



Letters to the Farmers of Suffolk. By the Rev. J. S. Henslow, M.A,, Rector 

 of Hitcham, and Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge. 

 London and Hadleigh, 1843. 



We take much blame to ourselves for not having before noticed the ex- 

 traordinary exertions which Professor Henslow is making in Suffolk for the 

 advancement of agriculture. These exertions commenced with some lectures 

 on the nature of plants and soils and manures, delivered at different times in 

 the course of the last two years to the farmers, his parishioners, and they 

 have led ultimately to the publication of the pamphlet before us, the history 

 of which is thus given. 



" These letters were published in three of the county papers. Their 

 object was to direct the attention of the farmers of Suffolk to the great im- 

 portance of conducting their experiments in such a manner as might render 

 any results obtained by them available to the progress of science, and conse- 

 quently to the more rapid improvement of agriculture. With this view, an 

 extensive systematic cooperation has been strongly insisted on : and the 

 success which has attended one appeal for the trial of a particular experiment, 

 to be undertaken by not less than fifty experimenters, has led to a persuasion 

 that it would be very easy to organise a system of experimental cooperation 

 among a very large body of the farmers of all England. I have, therefore, 

 determined on republishing these letters, with the addition of a few notes, 

 and a glossary of terms, in hope they may be serviceable in persuading others 

 to imitate the example of my own neighbours. As I am not to be personally 

 benefited by the sale of this publication, though I bear the expense of it, I 

 have no scruple in requesting my personal friends, acquaintances, and corrc- 



