338 Lewis's British Forest Trees. 



his last journey into the interior of New Holland, in 1 836. It 

 produced its yellow flowers in the Horticultural Society's Garden, 

 in May 1838". {B. M. E., June, No. 78.) 

 Hemerocallidece. 



1008 FTJ'NCK/^ 



*£lbo.marginata Hooi. white-margined £ A or 11 jl L Japan ? 1837 D s.l Bot. mag. 3657. 



An interesting green-house herbaceous plant, supposed to be 

 introduced into Europe by Dr. Sieboldt, and received at the 

 Glasgow Botanic Garden from M. Mackoy of Liege. Though 

 treated as a green-house or frame plant, it will probably be 

 found hardy. {Bot. Mag., June.) 



Bromel'ikcese. 



+ BromelxB. discolor Lindl. A rare South American stove 

 plant, which has lately flowered in the garden of Miss Gamier 

 of Wickham, near Southampton. It has sessile spiny heads of 

 dull pink flowers, which change to brown ; and differs from the 

 panicled bromelias in the long tube of the corolla, and the long 

 and simple stigmas. {B. M. R., June, No. 85.) 



REVIEWS. 



Art. I. Portraits of British Forest Trees, tvith and without their 

 Foliage; together with Instructions for drawing Trees Jrom 

 Nature, and Rules for obtaining the Height, Width, and true Pro- 

 portion that each Part bears towards another, clearly explained and 

 exemplified. Drawn from Nature, and on Stone, b}' Geo. R. Lewis, 

 Author of a " Series of Etchings portraying the Physiognomy, 

 Manners, and Character of the People of France and Germany; 

 principal Muscles of the Human Body ; and an Address on the 

 Subject of Education, as connected with Design," &c. In folio 

 numbers, each containing Six Drawings. London and Hereford , 

 1838. Price 1/. 



Mr. G. R. Lewis is well known as an artist remarkable for 

 the fidelity with which he represents natural objects. He was 

 selected by His Grace the Duke of Northumberland to make 

 portraits of the trees at Syon which His Grace munificently 

 presented to the Arboretum Britannicum ; and, to all who have 

 seen that work, more need not be said in favour of Mr. Lewis 

 as an artist. 



The portraits in the present work are on a much larger scale 

 than those done from the trees at Syon, and are to be consi- 

 dered more as studies for the artist than as objects of study for 

 the arboriculturist. As works of art, combining also the por- 

 traits of individual trees, nothing has appeared equal to them ; 

 for thouofh they are not so picturesque as the sketches in Strutt's 

 Sylva Britannica, yet they are more faithful portraits of nature. 



The portraits in Part I. are : Oak on the Lawn at Tibberton, 



