118 THE LADIES’ MAGAZINE OF GARDENING. 
Ismelia Maderensis. No. 779. A perennial with yellow flowers, a 
native of Madeira, before figured in Sweet’s Brit. Flow. Gard. 2d. ser. 
t. 342. 
Erica MacJcayana. No. 730. This pretty heath, which is generally 
supposed to be a variety of E. tetralix, though introduced in 1834, has 
not been figured before. 
Three of these plants are now figured for the first time. 
A Natural History of British and Foreign Quadrupeds, containing 
many Modern Discoveries, Original Observations, and numerous 
Anecdotes. By James H. Fennel. With two hundred Woodcuts. 
This is a very entertaining work, as the author has evidently spared 
no pains to collect all the information extant on the subject of which he 
treats. He must indeed have turned over many hundreds of volumes to 
cull the honey with which he has enriched his hive. The anecdotes of 
the different animals are very numerous and well selected; and in short, 
as was said of Goldsmith, Mr. Fennel has made zoology as entertaining 
as a fairy tale. 
As an example of the general style of the work, and of the agreeable 
manner in which the anecdotes are related, we shall quote 
THE HISTORY OF MOUSTACHE. 
44 Among all the biographies of poodles, none will be found more inter¬ 
esting than that of Moustache, who was horn at Falaise in Normandy, 
in 1799. At the tender age of six months he was disposed of to an 
eminent grocer at Caen, who treated him in the kindest manner; but, 
strolling about the town one day, not long after his arrival, Moustache 
happened to come upon the parade of a company of grenadiers. They 
were brilliantly equipped, their spirits high, and their drums loud. 
Moustache, instantly smitten with their fine appearance and military 
enthusiasm, cut the grocer for ever, slunk out of the town, and joined 
the grenadiers ere they had marched an hour. He was dirty; he 
was tolerably ugly; but there was an intelligence, a sparkle, a 
brightness about his eye that could not he overlooked. 4 We have not a 
single dog in the regiment,’ said the petit tambour , 4 and, at any rate, this 
one looks clever enough to forage for himself.’ The drum-major nodded 
assent; and Moustache attached himself to the band, and was soon found 
to possess considerable tact and talent. He already fetched and carried 
admirably, and ere three weeks were over, he could stand with as erect 
a back as any private in the regiment, act sentinel, and keep time in the 
inarch. Soldier-like, he lived from paw to mouth. He endured the 
