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II. — Nicol's Planter's Calendar. 



This volume, which ought to have been named 

 Sang's Nurseryman's Calendar, is a work of very con- 

 siderable merit and usefulness, where the craft of 

 the common nurseryman is plainly and judiciously 

 taught. The editor, IVIr Sang, admits that he was 

 very little indebted to the notes of his friend (the 

 late Mr Nicol) for the matter of the volume ; and 

 the work itself bears evidence of this, being princi- 

 pally devoted to the operations of the nursery, the 

 sowing and planting of hard -wood trees, which are 

 described with a judgment and accuracy attain- 

 able only by long experience in that line, to which 

 we understand Mr Sang belongs. Every person en- 

 gaged with the sowing, planting, or rearing of tim- 

 ber, if he be not too wise or too old to learn, should 

 forthwith procure this volume. 



Mr Sang recommends sowing of forests in prefer- 

 ence to planting, which many before him have done^ 

 we believe, more from conjecture that nature's own 

 process must be superior to any method of art, than 

 from any experience of the fact or accurate know- 



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