5Q Works on Gardening, Sfc. 



Lawrenceaw«). Noisette roses. Musk roses (jRosa moschata). 

 Macartney roses (i?6sa bracteata). i^osa microphylla. 



Any person wishing to have a collection of the very best roses, 

 has only to write for one or two plants belonging to each of the 

 foregoing groups ; directing either that the cheapest sorts may be 

 chosen, those which are the best representatives of the group, or 

 those which are the handsomest. Five shillings per group would 

 procure a very handsome small collection ; and something may 

 be done at even 2s. 6d. a group. 



A Descriptive Catalogue of Fruits cultivated hy T. Rivers and 

 Son, at their Nurseries, Saivbridgexvortk, Herts,- 'with the 

 Prices of Fruit Trees as sold hj them, 1836-7. 8vo, pp. 20. 



We should like much to see such a descriptive catalogue, by 

 Mr. Rivers, of hardy trees and shrubs ; provided it were, as in 

 the case of these fruit trees, limited to kinds actually propagated 

 by him for sale. The great evil of many nurserymen's catalogues 

 is, that they contain many names of which they have no plants ; 

 and a number of other names, which are only synonymes. We 

 shall take the beautiful genus Cratse'gus for an example, and ask, 

 where there is a catalogue of the species and varieties that is good 

 for anything ? We take this genus, because most of the kinds 

 belonging to it have fruited in the country ; and they are, besides, 

 easily known by their leaves. 



The British Almanac of the Society for the Diffusion of Usefid 

 Knowledge ; and the Comipanioyi to the Almanac, or Year-Book 

 of General L formation, for 1838. 12mo, pp. 96, and pp.248. 

 London. 



The British Working Matins Almanac ; and the Working Man^s 

 Companion, or Year-Book, for 1838. ]2mo, pp. 48, and pp. 

 144. London. Price Is. 4'd., bound in cloth. 



These are two excellent almanacs. The Year-Book to the 

 British Almanac contains directions for collecting specimens of 

 geology and mineralogy ; directions for collecting and preserving 

 plants in foreign countries for an herbarium ; and directions for 

 collecting zoological specimens. These directions ai'e, to a young 

 gardener, alone worth the price of the volume. 



The Working Man\s Companion, the price of which, without 

 the almanac, is only 9^., sewed, contains : The Interest of the 

 Working Men in a provident Administration of the Poor 

 Laws ; Home-made Bread ; Insurance against Expense of Sick- 

 ness ; Home-brewed Beer ; Cottage Economy, and the Dwellings 

 of the Working Classes. 



