and of Rural Improvement generally, during 1838. 573 



Journal of Agriculture, the Edinhurgh Philosophical Journal, the 

 Times, Morning Chronicle, and other daily and weekly papers, as 

 well as by the provincial press. The Suhurhan Gardener and 

 Villa Companion, which has also appeared during the current year, 

 is a work on which we have bestowed much pains, and it also, we 

 are happy to say, has been well received. Rivers's Hose Ama- 

 teu7'''s Guide, and Paxton's Treatise on the Cultivation of the Dahlia, 

 are good practical works ; and the Sertum Orchidaceum of Dr. 

 Lindley, and the Orchidacecc of Mexico and Guatemala by Mr. 

 Bateman, are the most splendid botanical works of the year. One 

 of the most practically useful books is Hood's Treatise on Warming 

 Buildings by Hot Water (see p. 50.). For the agriculturist, we 

 have Professor Low's Elements of Practical Agriculture, a work 

 which gives a very complete view of the most improved kind of 

 Scotch farming. In rural architecture there is nothing new 

 worthy of notice ; but we have drawn to a close the Architectural 

 Magazine ; and that work, which now forms five 8vo volumes, 

 contains such a mass of popular architecture, that is, papers 

 on architecture calculated for the improvement of the general 

 reader, as never was brought together before in any one pub- 

 lication. We can strongly recommend it to all those who wish 

 to improve their taste, not merely in architecture and furnishing, 

 but even in the art of laying out grounds, as it contains much 

 that bears, both directly and indirectly, on that subject. 



Gardeni?ig and Rural Improvement in Foreign Countries. — 

 We have very little to offer under this head. On the Continent 

 of Europe, gardening is certainly in a far more prosperous state 

 in Germany, than it is in any other country, notwithstanding 

 the temporary check which may have been given to the ardour 

 of some German arboriculturists, by the effects of the last winter 

 on trees and shrubs forming the collections in the gardens of 

 Berlin and Munich, We have alluded in a preceding page to 

 the taste for gardening exhibited by a distinguished individual 

 in Stockholm ; and in a future number we shall publish an 

 article, showing the progress now making in gardening and 

 planting in Greece. In North America and Pennsylvania, 

 gardening seems to be in a prosperous state, at least judging from 

 the splendid horticultural exhibition mentioned in p. 188. 



Obituary. — It is remarkable, that, as in the preceding year 

 we lost Mr. Sabine, so in this year we have lost Mr. Knight ; 

 unquestionably two individuals who have done more for gai'den- 

 ing in this country, than any others that either have existed 

 or do exist. A short biographical notice of Mr. Knight, by 

 Dr. Lindley, was given in the AthencEum, which we have copied 

 at p. 303. ; but Mr. Knight's active and ingenious life will be 

 best understood from his numerous papers published in the 

 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, and in the 



