REVIEWS AND EXTRACTS. 
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PART IT. 
REVIEWS AND EXTRACTS. 
REVIEWS. 
British Flowering Plants. —Drawn from Nature, and Engraved under the 
direction of Wm. Baxter, A. L. S. F. H. S. See. in octavo numbers, each contain¬ 
ing four plates, and descriptive letter press . coloured, one shilling, uncoloured 
sixpence.—On reviewing this work, vol. 1, page 655, we stated that the objects 
proposed by the author in publishing it was, to supply the lovers of botany with 
correct figures of plants at a cheap rate. We also noticed what we thought a 
very great deficiency, viz. the want of letter-press. Our reasons for again re¬ 
viewing is in consequence of this deficiency being now entirely removed, instead 
of two coloured figures as then proposed for sixpence, there are now four 
coloured ones for one shilling, or four plain for sixpence, including in each 
number four leaves of letter press, stating the scientific and English names : 
Linnaean Class and Order; Natural Order; Generic and Specific Characters ; 
References to the most popular Botanical works; Localities; Time of flowering ; 
Descriptions of the Plants; and figured Dissections, showing the essential cha¬ 
racters. The figures give a pretty correct idea of the plants themselves, and in 
the five numbers before us, there are twenty plants nicely coloured. We wish it 
the greatest success, and have no hesitation in recommending it as calculated to 
be eminently useful to those who wish to become acquainted with our British 
plants at a cheap rate. 
Opinions of Eminent Medical Men on Vegetable Diet in reference to 
Cholera; pamphlet, 32 pages, price three-pence. During the raging of that 
dreadful epidemic, the Asiatic cholera in London, in the months of July and 
August last, a rumour was current, that by eating vegetables and fruit the body 
became more predisposed to receive the disease. To such an extent did this 
report prevail, that the market gardeners were nearly ruined. A Committee 
of the Gardener’s society wrote to thirty of the most eminent physicians in Lon¬ 
don, requesting their opinions as to the truth of the current report. Their re¬ 
spective answers occupy the whole of the pamphlet, and all without any dissent 
agree that the use of vegetables and fruit is not only not injurious but in connec 
lion with animal food, and eaten with moderation, is highly beneficial and most 
conducive to the health and vigour of the body. 
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