BOTANICAL INI>EX. 
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REGENT PUBLICATIONS. 
[We shall be pleased to receive from authors and publishers, copies of botanical books, papers, and prosj>ect- 
uses, for a notice in this column.] 
fcT last wo are to have a work devoted to the Camellia, by the most successful 
I 1 ! cultivator in the United States, if not in the world. The Practical Camellia 
Culture, by Robert J. Ilalliday, Baltimore, Md., will be ready the first of 
$% May, 18S0, price two dollars per copy, postage paid. In a private letter. Mr. 
Halliday says: “It will contain from 150 to 175 pages, in fifty chapters, ex- 
clusively on Camellias, with four colored plates and fifty wood engravings, 
giving all I know on their culture and propagation; how to grow all from cuttings: 
inarching and grafting, and all methods of growing the plants; what I claim to be 
new in dispensing with grafting and inarching; and growing Alba Plena, from 
cuttings, and all varieties. The only book of the kind; no copy or reprint, but 
practical experience of over twenty years. Of all the choice and beautiful Winter 
flowering plants, the Camellia and Azalea are to our fancy the most desirable, but 
they are also the most unsatisfactory ones to attempt to grow in the West, from the 
fact that we do not understand their wants. Now we feel encouraged to again try 
our hand at the culture of the Camellia, and profiting by Mr. Halliday 's experience, 
shall expect" to succeed. This announcement will also be good news to our friends 
in the Southern States, where the trees will stand in the open ground, from year to 
year, without any protection. 
One of the most useful botanical works published in America recently, is C. E. 
Hobbs’ Botanical Handbook, (Somerville, Mass.,) price $2.00, post paid. The work is 
complete in one volume of 271 pages; large 8 vo. arranged in three sections. Each 
section is arranged alphabetically, so as to form a complete index to the common, 
English, botanical and Pharmaeopoaial name of both plants and drugs. For every 
name or explanation given the author has authority unquestioned, and it is the re- 
sult of no hasty compilation. The manuscript has received the attention of the com- 
piler for twelve years, and during the whole of that time he has had still better prep- 
aration for the production of such a work, by being constantly in contact with, and 
handling most of the articles of the Pharmacopieia and the Botanical products used 
in domestic practice. 
The first division of the work comprises a complete alphabetical list of common 
and local names by which botanical articles are known, referring to a second col- 
umn, in which is the usual commercial English name of each common name; and a 
third column giving the botanical name of both, from the best recognized authori- 
ties. This division of the work comprises 135 pages, giving over 8,000 references, 
being a more complete list than has ever been published in any book of this kind. 
The second division of the work comprises a complete list of Botanical names and 
synonyms, followed in the second column by their common names, and in the third 
column, in the case of the botanical names, giving the parts of plants and substances 
used, their properties and productions; and in case of synonyms, the name it is a 
synonym for. The exhaustive manner in which this part of the subject lias been 
treated may be inferred from the fact that 88 names of Cinchona are mentioned; and 
the author has standard authority not only for the botanical names, but for the ex- 
planations given. In this part of the work are 85 pages, and over 5,000 botanical 
names. 
In the third division of the work, precedence is given to the Pharmacopoeia! 
names, of which there are more than 2,700, alphabetically arranged, on 46 pages, 
with the authority — whether United States, British or German, Pharmacopieia is 
referred to. In this list the common names come second, and the botanical names 
in the third column. This list is most complete, containing as it does in the list of 
Balsamum, 29 names; Cortex, 159 names; Flores, 110 names; Folia, 90; Fructus, 51 ; 
Gninmi, 66; Herba, 352; Oleum, 233; Radix, 325; and Semen, 141. 
From the far-off antipodes comes the “ Onjanic Constituents of Plants," by Wit t- 
stein, translated from the original German, and enlarged by numerous articles of 
original material by Baron Ferd. von Mueller. The work contains 332 pages, (8 mo., 
