1870.] 



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of information for any one whose tastes lie in this direction. Its 

 defects are rather of omission than of commission. The plan pro- 

 mises a completely exhaustive treatment of the subject : in the first 

 place we have an alphabetical list, with brief descriptions, of 621 trees 

 and shrubs, selected as desirable for planting in the open air in this 

 country; followed by a classification of them under a variety of 

 headings, as to their height, their foliage, their time of flowering, 

 the colour of their flowers, their fruit, their timber, and other points. 

 It is illustrated by a number of very pretty woodcuts, of which 

 we subjoin a specimen. The principle on which these 621 species 



Abies nobilis ; Wimbledon. 



have been selected is not always obvious. Why, for instance, is our 

 common Fuchsia (miscalled Fuchsia coccinea, as Dr. Hooker has 

 shown) excluded, forming as it does the glory of every cottage-garden 

 in the Isle of Wight and in Devonshire, the stems assuming almost 



