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George Mason, "a classical scholar and critic." — " An Essay on 

 Design in Gardening." London, 8vo. — An enlarged edition, 

 1795. London, 8vo. 



Thomas Wh.ately, Secretary to the Earl of Suffolk. — " Obser- 

 vations on Modern Gardening, illustrated by Descriptions. " 

 London, 8vo. 



Rev. William Mason, poet. Canon of York. — -'The English 

 Garden : A Poem in four books." London, 4to. — A new 

 edition, 1785. London, 8vo. 



Ch. Cal L. Hirschfeld, "counselor to his Danish Majesty, 

 Professor of the Fine Arts at Kiel." — " Ammerkungen iiber 

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Claude Henri Watelet, Receiver-General of Finance, Mem- 

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 Paris : 8vo. 



Sir William Chambers, F.R.S., architect. — " Dissertations cm 

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J. M. Morel, architecte. — "Thcorie des Jardins, ou I'Art des 

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L. R. Girardin, Vicomte d'Ermenonville. — " La Composition 

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Daniel M.althus. — An Introduction to a Translation of Gi- 

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 ;8o9. Rev. William Gilpin, M.A. — " Observations relative 

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William Marshall, estate agent. — "Planting and Rural Or- 

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 London, 8\'o. 



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 London, 2 vols., 8vo. 



. — "Three Essays: On Picturesque Beauty, On 



Picturesque Travel, On Sketching Landscape, etc." Lon- 

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Richard Payne Knioht, "a gentleman of great classical 

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Sir Uved.-vle Price, "a gentleman and scholar of great taste, 

 who has greatly improved and beaulihed his own estate." — 

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Humphrey Repton, landscape gardener. — "Letter to Uvedale 

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Landscape Gardening, etc." London, 4to. 



John Claudius Loudon, landscape gardener. — "Observations 

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Alexandre Louis Joseph, Comte de Laborde. — " Descriptions 

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John Claudius Loudon. — " Hints on the Formation of Gar- 

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etc." Paris: i2mo. 



John Claudius Loudon. — " An Encyclopa?dia of Gardening, 

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Periodical Literature. 



T^HE first Lime Tree on the great avenue called Untcr dcii 

 ^ Linden, in Berlin, was planted in 1680, the first house 

 having been built three years before. The story of this first 

 planting and of those which have since been made is told by 

 Herr Rodenberg in the Deutsche Rimdschau for November, 

 1S87 ; and in subsequent numbers of the magazine he has out- 

 lined the history of the famous street which has witnessed so 

 many striking political and social scenes. 



The title of an article by Lord Fortcscuc in the March num- 

 ber of the Nineteenth Century will doubtless attract the eye of 

 many who are interested in the development of a love for 

 flowers among the poor. But upon e.xamination " Poor Men's 

 Gardens" proves to be simply a treatise upon the question, 

 much discussed of late in England, of the advisability of let- 

 ting to members of the laboring classes "allotments" of 

 ground at a distance from their homes, by the cultivation of 

 which they may add to the food supply of their families. 



The great and ancient Forest of Fontainebleau has been 

 made famous all over the world by the genius of the band of 

 landscape painters who, in the last generation, devoted their 

 lives to depicting its venerable Oaks, its heathy glades, its 

 melancholy pools and its huge groups of moss-grown rocks. 

 All who know and admire the pictures of Rousseau, and Diaz 

 and Dupre, and of a host of later comers who have followed 

 in their traces — and the number must be legion in America — 

 will be interested to read an account of the Forest of Fon- 

 tainebleau written by Mr. J. Penderel-Brodhurst and published 

 in recent numbers of the Magazine of Art. And even to those 

 whom no artistic magnet has attracted to this forest, these ar- 

 ticles will be attractive ; for l.>y describing the scenes of hum- 

 ble life which, winter and summer, are busily enacted beneath 

 the Oaks of Fontainebleau, the difference between what is 

 meant in Europe by a forest and what is meant by one in 

 America, is vividly set forth. 



In Chambers' Journal ior February will be found a brightly 

 written, yet instructive article called " Early Blossoms." The 

 chief flowers of which the author speaks are Snowdrops and 

 Crocuses, giving us at some length the history of their intro- 

 duction into European gardens, speaking especially of the spe- 

 cies of Crocus which furnishes the saftVon of commerce, and 

 descriljing the singular vicissitudes of public favor and dis- 

 favor which this substance has undergone. 



The Popular Scienee MontJily for April contains an attractive 

 and instructive chapter on " Calitornian Dry Winter F'lowers," 

 by Professor Byron D. Halsted. It gives an account of 

 observations made in the vicinities of Los Angelos and Santa 

 Barbara in the winter of i886-'87, when the rainy season was 

 unusually late, and the plants which were in bloom had 

 received no rain for nearly ten months. In view of this fact, 

 it is surprising to read the long list of such plants — plants 

 " which grow without irrigation, and blossom from the dust" — 

 and to note how many of them belong to genera whose 

 eastern representatives flourish only under very different con- 

 ditions. Excluding the gartlen flowers of which, if he will but 

 supply a little water, the Californian may have " the whole list 

 in mid-winter," Professor Halsted pronounces the most attrac- 

 tive flowers he found to be those of the phlox-like Cilia 

 Californiea. " This shrub is two or three feet high, and grows 

 upon dry hill-sides. The leaves are thickly set and viUous, 

 while the stems are terminated by clusters of rose or lilac- 

 colored flowers an inch or more across the limb. The fra- 

 grance is indescribably rich when not too profuse." This plant 

 is locally called the " Mountain Pink," and next to it in attrac- 

 tiveness, the author ranks the Hosackia glabra, of the order 

 Leguminosa;, a shrub with long decumbent stems and yellow 

 and brown flowers. 



The most interesting article for lovers of nature in the 

 recently completed eighty-third volume of the Revue des Deu.t 

 Mondes is Monsieur Th. Bentzon's " Le Naturalisme aux 

 Etats-LInis," the exact bearing of which is more clearly defined 

 by the sub-title " La BibliotliSque du Plein Air." Monsieur 

 Bentzon — who, by the way, is a lady, writing under an assumed 

 name, with a special predilection for American literature — 

 reviews in this article, at considerable length and with high 

 praise, the volumes contained in Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & 

 Co.'s " Out-door Library" — the works of Thoreau and John 

 Burroughs, Lowell's " My Garden Acquaintance," and Miss 

 Jewett's " White Heron," and speaks incidentally of the 

 Journals of Agassiz and his wife, and of poems and stories by 

 many other hands. The genesis of this out-door literature is 

 traced, no doubt with much reason, largely to the combined 

 influence of A.gassiz's teachings and of Emerson's"Xature," and 

 its development is looked upon as the effect, less of the wish 

 for scientific knowledge than of the desire, on the one hand, 

 to give literary outlet to the " animal spirits" of a young ajid 

 vigorous race, and, on the other, of the Emersonian wish 

 to trace the relationship between the soul of man and the soul 

 of nature. We ourselves hardly realize, perhaps, how strongly 

 the love for nature is expressing itself in our current literature. 

 It is doubly pleasant, dierefore, to find the fact recognized 



