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PART II. 
REVIEWS AND EXTRACTS. 
REVIEWS. 
1. — Catalogue of Fruits, cultivated in the Garden of the 
Horticultural Society of London. 2nd edition. 8vo. Ss. 
The very excellent system adopted in the arrangement of this new Catalogue, 
readers it a most valuable wffrk to every person interested in the growth of 
Fruits; both the species and the varieties are placed in alphabetical order, ac- 
cording to the names in common use, and not according to those of Botanists, 
and to render it doubly useful, the synonymes are appended; and many of 
the most important characters which distinguish the varieties, are compressed 
in a very small compass, by columns and abbreviations, as for instance — 
" 32 Astrachan White. | p. y. | Conical. | 2 | T. H | Au^.— Sept." 
which signifies, that the White Astrachaa Apple is pale yellow, of a conical 
figure, middling size, used for table or dessert, of the first quality, and ripens 
in August and September. To the abbreviations, a few useful observations 
are added in a separate column. 
In the former edition, published in 1826, a number of fruits, as Bilberries, 
Hawthorns, Brambles, &c. were comprehended, which in the present one are 
entirely left out ; as by far the greater part of them, although eatable, are not 
fit for cultivation as fruit, — others, can scarcelybe considered eatable at all, — 
and a third class, (as the Orange tribe) is cultivated in this country for their 
flowers rather than their fruit. But what has chiefly caused the omission of the 
latter, and of other tender fruits, has been that in the present state of the Gar- 
den,- there are no means of cultivating them with a view either to fruiting 
or distribution. -Ta this there is only one exception, in the Purple Guava, 
{Psidium Cafilei/dnum) which occupies a permanent situation in one of the 
vineries, where it bears abundantly. 
In conclusion, it is due to Mr. Robert Thompson, who has the charge of the 
Fruit department in the Garden of the Society, to state that the value of the 
Catalogue is principally due to his assiduity and Pomological knowledge. 
We hope, this Catalogue will find its way into the hands of every nursery- 
man, who would do well to adopt the names given by the Society, as, from 
the multitude of synonymes that have been, and still continue to be adopted, 
the distinctions of fruits have become very complicated; and in many cases, 
when trees have been bought under the impression of their being entirely 
new sorts, they have proved to be only such as had long been in the posses- 
sion of the purchaser. We are sorry to say, from experience, that country 
nurserymen are far from being so alive to this, as they should be. 
