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PART II. 
HORTICULTURAL AND RURAL SUBJECTS. 
REVIEWS AND EXTRACTS. 
Article I. — Reviews and Extracts from Works on Hor¬ 
ticulture, andRural and Domestic Economy, 
I. — A Guide to the Orchard and Kitchen Garden. By 
George Lindley, C.M.H.S. Edited by John Lindley, F.R.S. 
&c. 1 vol. 8vo. 16s. boards. 
This far exceeds our expectations; for after the numerous works that have 
been already written on these subjects, we certainly were not prepared to see 
anything very original; but in this we are most agreeably disappointed. Mr. 
George Lindley, it should be understood, has long been practically acquainted 
with fruits.—Indeed those who possess his work, and have any pretensions to 
a knowledge of the subject, will not need to be informed that the whole of the 
descriptions both of the fruits and vegetables, are handled in a masterly style. 
One of its most valuable features is, having the synonymes attached to both 
fruits and vegetables, when required.* On that account alone, independent 
of the directions for propagation, it is rendered truly valuable. The work 
is, what it professes to be, “A Guide to the Fruit and Kitchen Garden’’and 
on the whole contains perhaps less errors than almost any work on the sub¬ 
ject we ever met with. It gives, not only excellent descriptions of each 
kind, but what is of infinitely more value, a selection for planting a small gar¬ 
den, with such sorts as Mr. Lindley considers would best suit the different 
parts of the kingdom. He has not attempted to give any detailed accounts 
for the operation of work either in the fruit or kitchen garden, and we think he 
has shown his good sense by omitting them, as the greater part of such details 
must necessarily be extracted from other works, and this would have taken 
away a great portion of the feature of originality which it now possesses; for 
no person considers Mr. G. Lindley to be a practical gardener, but all who 
are acquainted with him, are satisfied of his knowledge as a practical nur¬ 
seryman, and consider him eminently qualified for the task he has undertaken. 
We think, however, he has made some few little mistakes, in some of the 
sorts of fruits recommended for the North, and in a few other things also, which 
we shall notice in their proper places. At present, wc shall confine our observa¬ 
tions to the Introduction, the most of which we intend to extract, in order to 
show what may be expected from a work where the subjects are introduced in 
so copious and intelligent a manner. It is unquestionably the very best we 
ever saw penned to preface any work on Gardening, and contains some sound 
and valuable reasoning on the Theory of Cultivating Fruits, &c. 
* If Mr. Ronald’s work, reviewed in our last number, pa?:e 68, had contained these syno¬ 
nymes, it would, as we then hinted, have been a most excellent feature. The descriptions 
{^iven by INIr. Lindley are so clear and explicit, that any person possessing the fruit by name, 
might readily read its characters from his work ; but there exists considerable difficulty when 
the fruits are unknown, to distinguish them from each other without a plate, however 
minutely described.—CONDUCTORS. 
