4 3 4- Botany^ in Four Parts. 



pond, or piece of still water, in p. 630., we think we have done 

 more for the practical gardener, who has not made the subject 

 of landscape-gardening his study, than will be found in all the 

 writings of either Whately or Price. 



Let it not be thought that we are in the slightest degree 

 undervaluing these writings ; so far from this, we have always 

 borne testimony to their unrivalled excellence ; and we freely 

 acknowledge that it is to them, and a few other works on the 

 same subject, that we are indebted for all we know of landscape- 

 gardening. 



Perhaps the greatest service we have done the young gardener 

 and the amateur, in the Suburban Gardener, is, that of laying 

 down the rules which, in landscape-gardening, are derived from 

 the principle of the Recognition of Art. We claim for ourselves 

 the merit of having been the first to show in what manner this 

 principle is applicable to modern landscape-gardening. The first 

 discoverer of the principle, our readers have been informed in a 

 previous volume of this Magazine, was Quatremere de Quincy : 

 but this author only applied it to the geometrical style of laying 

 out grounds ; and, because he could not apply it to the modern 

 style, he rejects works in that style, as unworthy of being classed 

 with the fine arts. 



On the whole, though the Suburban Gardener and Villa Com- 

 panion is chiefly intended for those either possessing, or intend- 

 ing to possess, some kind of country house and garden, yet 

 there is no work that we have published which contains so 

 much information that will be of use to the young gardener who 

 proposes to excel in the highest department of his profession. 



Art. ir. Botany, i7i Four Parts : 1. Structural Botany ; 2. Phy- 

 siology; 3. Systematic Botany ; •i. Descriptive Botany. Published 

 under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of 

 Useful Knowledge. In seven numbers, 8vo, 6d. each ; or in one 

 volume in boards, 45. London, ISS^ to 1838. 



The quantity of ideas that is compressed into this work is 

 altogether astonishing. It is attributed to Dr. Lindley, and, in 

 our opinion, does credit even to him. The young gardener will 

 see by the title that it contains the essence of all that is known 

 on the subject of the principles of botany; and we assure him 

 that, if he neglects, or even delays, procuring the work, and 

 studying it profoundly, he will fail in an important duty to 

 himself. We recommend, in particular, the chapter (p. ISO.) 

 " Of Species and Varieties," as likely to save the young gardener 

 a world of trouble in puzzling himself about distinctions where 

 none exist; or where, if they do, they are not worth attending to. 



