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resque, while Keptoii s work will enable tlie student to modify these, and put them 
into execution. 
We may take the present occasion for stating how much the public are indebted 
to Mr. Loudon for bringing out Mr. Repton's works in the present form. Their 
enormous price rendered them before quite unattainable to the majority ; and yet 
no book of the kind is more calculated to be serviceable to practical men, because, 
while fundamental principles are duly explained and insisted upon, their applica- 
tion is so clearly shown, and the hundreds of examples given may be so readily 
examined, that we should fancy that a visit to the places described, with the book 
as a companion, and a tasteful friend with whom to discuss the different topics 
treated of, would be nearly sufficient to make any properly educated and well- 
informed gardener a proficient in this delightful art. 
As it is a curious fact that all landscape gardeners, or writers on the subject, 
have been extravagant in their advocacy of certain favourite opinions, and as most 
of them have entertained views, too, which are but lamely supported by argument, 
or at variance with taste ; we must caution the inquirer against following implicitly 
either Repton or Price, or any previous, modern, or living author. No one can 
ever excel in landscape gardening, who does not aspire to something beyond a 
copyist ; since it is notorious that every mere imitator always perpetuates the defects, 
and seldom reaches the higher qualities of his adopted exemplar. 
Loudon's Encydopmdia of Trees and Shrubs ; being an Abridgment of the Arboretum et 
Fruticetum Britannicum. Longman and Co. 
While none but the original edition of this important work existed, gardeners, 
and the admirers of trees and shrubs whose means were not of the most ample 
description, were entirely precluded from purchasing it by its high price. Now, 
however, it is relieved of the four volumes of portraits of trees, and of the historical, 
poetical, and other associations which were inserted at great length in the letter- 
press, and is brought, in one volume, within the^^grasp of all who covet the immense 
mass of real information it contains. 
We have before bestowed so much praise on the work, that little is left for us 
here but to refer back to the last volume of this magazine for our opinions. And 
though these were given on the eight-volume edition, we have there said nothing 
that will not apply to the present. Not but that all which has been taken away 
was in the highest degree interesting, and the wealthy will yet prefer the first 
edition. Still, the matter removed was of no positive value in a practical sense ; 
and the descriptions, remarks on culture, outlines of the uses in a medicinal or other 
point of view, and the wood-cuts, will enable any reader to discover the name, 
treatment, and importance of any arboreous plant he may meet with. Indeed, this 
edition has many engravings which were not in the previous one, only six described 
species being unillustrated. It has also an analysis of trees and shrubs according 
