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sharp sand, and placed in a shaded situation of the stove, or any other apart¬ 
ment where they can be shaded from the effects of the mid-day sun; as a small 
pit or frame is generally appropriated to this purpose, which can readily be sha¬ 
ded by throwing a mat over the lights while the cuttings are striking root. Some 
of the species will require a slight degree of bottom heat, to induce them to 
throw out young roots.” 
(i The most suitable season for propagating tropical plants, is from January to 
July: but many of the kinds may be put into the cutting pots at any period 
of the year, providing the young shoots are in a proper state, as some species re¬ 
quire the wood to be ripened and firm before they are put in; whilst others may 
be increased when the shoots have grown only sufficiently long for the cutting.” 
The third part of the work is devoted to plans and details relative to the 
kitchen-garden department, with lists of the fruits cultivated; and it comprises 
numerous designs for the erection of forcing-houses, culinary pits, &c. with an 
account of the materials best adapted for their erection, and the mode of heating 
bjr hot-water pipes, &c.; and lastly, the general routine of culture pursued 
throughout the year in the forcing department. 
On this third part we might offer some lengthy observations, and also make 
useful extracts from it, but we must be excused for want of room. We would 
only remark, that the mode of treating by hot-water in use at Woburn, is far 
more successful than we ever saw it at any other garden. We intend very shortly 
to explain it more particularly by an engraving. 
There are twenty-six plates, all very well executed, and we can say with truth 
that the work, on the whole, is w’ell worthy of public patronage. J. P. 
THE ANIMAL KINGDOM, 
ARRANGED ACCORDING TO ITS ORGANIZATION, 
Serving an a foundation for the Natural History of Animals , and an Introduction to Comparative 
Anatomy. 
BY BARON CUVIER, WITH FIGURES DESIGNED AFTER NATURE. 
CRUSTACEA, ARACHNIDES, AND INSECTS, BY M. LATREILLE, 
TRANSLATED FROM THE LATEST FRENCH EDITION, 
With additional Notes, and Illustrated by nearly 500 additional Plates on Steel, 
8 VO. IN 36 NUMBERS, l.S. EACH; TO FORM FOUR VOLUMES. 
This is a work of much value; it is the production of one of the principal, if 
not of the most eminent comparative amatomists of the day. No. 7, which now 
lies before us, contains three plates, having six figures of Mammalia, very nicely 
coloured. The descriptions are brief, and but of little interest to the general 
reader, yet from the number of plates, and the accuracy of the descriptions, the 
work will be a lasting treasure as a book of reference, and on account of the 
smallness of the price, it will find its way into many hands. We can recom¬ 
mend it, as being well worth the money, to every Naturalist, who may want a 
work of the kind. 
K 
