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quartos ,it might be thought impossible to compress into a duodecimo the endless de- 

 tails of modern horticulture, it says, " Nevertheless Mr, Johnson has made the attempt : 

 his work consists of 700 pages and upwards, and contains about 3,500 subjects." 

 After giving some extracts, it proceeds, " These specimens serve to show the general 

 nature of Mr. Johnson's book. Its utility is indisputable, especially to amateurs and 

 young gardeners. Its faults are those which are inseparable from its conciseness ; 

 its merit is the skiU with which the matter is condensed and selected." 



The Gardener and Land Steward of March 30. — "We are glad to speak in 

 terms of commendation of the manner in which the work is executed. Upwards of 

 700 pages are closely filled, and, in company with the letter-press, a considerable 

 number of neat engravings are interspersed throughout. Treating, as it does, on the 

 whole range of garden subjects, it is obvious that each must bear the impress of 

 brevity ; and so it does ; but one very meritorious feature of the work is the talent 

 with which the necessary abridgment has been made." 



The Atlas, June 6. — " Utility, more than either originality of contents or ele- 

 gance of phraseology, has been the author's object ; and he has attained it. The book 

 is a compact mass of useful information, so arranged as to admit of instantaneous 

 reference." 



Douglas Jerrold's WeeUy Newspaper, August 8, — " A book of sound practical 

 utility gains little by any eulogy ; it will find its own way and rise into public 

 estimation in defiance of all suicidal criticisms. We venture to pronounce the pre- 

 sent a work that will conquer public favour. Not only is the subject a popular one, 

 but the treatment of the vast variety of subjects it involves is condensed, clear, and 

 judicious. We do not recollect so much and such various matter in any work of 

 reference, and in so small a limit, as at once to save much of cost both in time and 

 purchase-money. In treating of fruit-trees and of flowers, a sound practical judg- 

 ment is displayed. The number of vegetative species is given in the aggregate in 

 all cases ; but as the work would be extended to a great compass, if every distinct 

 species were named, those are recorded in full which are acknowledged to be the 

 best." " We recommend this dictionary, therefore, to all our readers who are 

 curious about, or attached to, what is at the same time the most primitive, pleasing, 

 and healthy of pursuits, whether as a business or a pleasure. The whole is illus- 

 trated with neat wood-engravings explanatory of such objects as, being beyond the 

 pale of verbal description, it is difficult otherwise to comprehend." 



2. THE PRINCIPLES of PRACTICAL GAR- 



DENING. By the same Auther. Price 6s. 



The author's object in this work is to make the gardener acquainted with 

 the principles on which his practice is founded. This has been his labour for the 

 last twenty years ; but he now gives the results of his researches and experiments 

 in a collected and orderly form ; thus aiming to advance plant cultivation from mere 

 empiricism to the class of rational sciences. 



3. THE ART of BREWING. By David Booth. 



Price \s. in cloth, or in two numbers ^d. It is one of the Treatises 

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