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REVIEWS. 



Art. I. The Fruit, Flower, and Kitchen-Garden, being the Article 

 " Horticulture " of the Seventh Edition of the " Encyclopcedia 

 Britannica." By Patrick Neill, LL D., F.R.S.E. 8vo. Edinb. 

 1838. 6s. 



We noticed with approbation the first impression of this work, 

 which appeared in 4to, in 1835, in our Eleventh Vohime, p. 673. 

 The present edition, though in a more humble form, is enlarged 

 in point of matter; and, the engravings being reduced, and printed 

 from wood along with the text, instead of being in copperplates 

 at the end, it forms a portable volume, and, perhaps, one of the 

 best modern books on gardening extant, for its size. We should 

 say it is in gardening, what Professor Henslow's Descriptive and 

 Physiological Botany (written for the Cabinet Cyclopcedia) is 

 in that science, viz., comprehensive, clear, and in every part 

 well reasoned. 



" The whole subject of horticulture, or practical gardening, is here treated in 

 a condensed form, in a popular style; yet, it is hoped, with sufficient accuracy, 

 although no more of the philosophy of the subject has been introduced than 

 seemed requisite to a clear understanding of the practice. It has occurred to 

 the publishers that, in the form of a duodecimo volume, it might prove a use- 

 ful manual ; no book on general gardening, of the same size, having appeared 

 in Scotland for a good many years past." (p. vii.) 



We cannot help taking this opportunity of strongly recom- 

 mending the Encyclopedia Brita7inica to all who can afford to 

 purchase that work, or such treatises from it as have been pub- 

 lished separately. Horticulture is only one of the many excel- 

 lent treatises contained in it, in which the gardener is interested, 

 and which are also, like horticulture, published separately : for 

 example, Agriculture, Architecture, Entomology, Mineralogy, 

 &c. 



Art. IL Sertum Orchidaceum: a Wreath of the most beautijid Or- 

 chidaceous Flotvers. Selected by John Lindley, Ph.D., F.R.S., &c. 

 Part II. folio. 25s. 



iNour notice of the first part of this work (p. 148.), we pointed 

 out some slight blemishes in the lithography of the plates ; but 

 we are most happy to find that the plates in the present part are 

 altogether free from defects of this kind, and are at once artistical 

 and botanical, in the highest degree. In fact, it does not appear 

 to us that they can be surpassed, in the present state of this 

 department of art. The first species, Brassm macrostachya, 

 figured in this part, having been introduced into British gardens, 

 the details respecting it will be found under our " Floricultural 

 Notices ; " the others are as follows : — 



