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MISCELLANEOUS. 
NEW AND IMPORTANT WORK ON GARDENING. 
Now ready, with upwards of 400 Plans, Views, and Illustrations, 8vo., 18s., 
THE 
PARKS, PROMENADES, AND GARDENS OF PARIS. 
By W. ROBINSON, F.L.S. 
Correspondent of the “ Times” for the Horticultural Department of the Paris Exhibition, 
Horticultural Editor of the “ Field,” <$'«. 
This work describes the Public and Imperial Gardens, Squares, Avenues, and Bonlevards of 
Paris and its environs, including Versailles, while an abundanoe of beautiful views and figures place 
the various scenes treated of accurately before the reader’s eye. Nearly half of the book is devoted 
to public gardening, considering the subjoct with reference to the wants of our over-crowded cities; 
but the greater portion is oocupied with a thorough and profusely illustrated account of every inter- 
esting and instructive feature of the practical gardening of Paris and its vicinity. Of the wonderful 
underground mushroom caves, where miles of beds may be seen in bearing at one time, there aro 
eight views, including a plan, the first ever published on this most curious and interesting subject, 
either in Franco or England ; while numbers of accurate figures show to the life all the more im- 
portant plants for the decoration of apartments, snb-tropical gardening, &o. The subject of fruit 
and vegetable culture is dealt with at great length, every instructive or interesting practice of 
French market gardeners or fruit growers being described and well illustrated by the aid of acourato 
engravings, and amateurs or gardeners may get from the book a better idea of the public and prac- 
tical gardening of Paris than they could by visiting the spot. 
“ In conclusion, we hardly know of a better mode of answering the author’s inquiry of ‘ How aro 
we to improve,’ than by placing his book in the hands of every gardener in the kingdom ; and 
where employers are liberal, or even worldly-wise, doubtless this will be speedily done.” — Gardeners’ 
Chronicle. 
“ A clearly and clevorly written work, thoroughly illustrated. Never before have the market 
gardens of Paris been so vividly and instructively described. Mr. Robinson is not bitten by any 
Gallic mania, but retains the keen love of nature, which is the safest and truest instinct of the hor- 
ticulturist. Such is his energy, enthusiasm, and persuasiveness, that we quite expect to hear of his 
chapter on Parisian underground mushroom culture (to which we must be content to refer our 
Tenders for a novel and genuine sensation) stimulating British enterprise to turn to account our used 
np mines and caverns.” — Saturday lleviem. 
“ With reference to tho especial subjects of which it treats, Paris has never before been so 
thoroughly laid open, not merely to visitors, but to Parisians, who of course know less about it as a 
whole than strangers.” — Athciueum. 
“ While one part may be said to be devoted to tho public health, the other treats of the no less 
important question of. the supply of food, and Mr. Robinson’s detailed account of tho more im- 
portant fruits and vegetables for the Paris market will be read with great interest by consumers, 
and no little profit by the producers of such necessaries of lif a.”— Notes and Queries. 
Mr. WILLIAM BULL’S SEED CATALOGUE, 
published annually, contains descriptions and prices of all the most desirable novelties both in 
Flower and Vegetable Seeds, together with all the best and most popular seeds that can be offered 
for the Kitchen Garden, Farm, Flower Garden, Conservatory, &c. 
Export Orders. — Mr. W. B. is continually receiving the most gratifying accounts of the excel- 
lent condition in which both the plant and seed orders entrusted to him roach their destinations, 
and the satisfaction given by the selections made. 
Mr. W. B’s BULB CATALOGUE. 
“This admirably prepared list, in addition to the usual lists of Hyacinths, Tulips, Narcissi, 
Crocus, &c., &c., oontains such a capital list of miscellaneous bulbs, that it deserves something more 
than a passing notice.” — Vide “ The Gardeners' Magazine," September 4th, 1869, page 396. 
All Mr. WILLIAM BULL’S Catalogues may be had on application. 
