PART II. 
HORTICULTURAL AND RURAL SUBJECTS. 
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REVIEWS AND EXTRACTS. 
Article 1.-—Reviews of, and Extracts from, Works on 
Horticulture, Rural Economy^ 8$c. 
1. —HoRTUS CaNTABRIGIENSIS ; OR AN x\cCENTED CATALOGUE OF 
Indigenous and Exotic Plants cultivated in the C Aim- 
bridge Botanic Garden. By the late James Don, Curator, 
12th edition, illustrated by numerous wood cuts. Corrected, &c. 
by George Sinclair, F.L.S., &c. 8vo. 12^. ^ 
Wb announced in No. 4, page 187, of onr Register, the forthcoming of this new 
edition, which certainly possesses decided advantages over every other edition of 
Don that has hitherto appeared. One important feature is the illustration of each 
class and order by wood cuts. This will be found of great importance to young 
Botanists j as will, also, the names of the plants being accented. But the most 
prominent feature of improvement is the appendix attached ; this contains select 
lists of Hardy Ornamental Creepers; Green-house Creepers; a selection of different 
species and varieties of Fruit Trees, including Apples, Pears, Plums, Grapes, 
Peaches, Nectarines, Apricots, Figs, Gooseberries, Currants, Raspberries, &c.&c. 
with others calculated to ornament the pleasure ground, green-house, or stove. 
The properties of most of the chief fruits are described, and the situations they 
ought to occupy in the orchard, kitchen gartlen, &c., pointed out, with the time 
of their coming into use; and in addition to this, a list of the most valuable seeds 
for husbandry. The whole of the appendix is alphabetically arranged to render 
it easy to refer to. These additions to a catalogue of plants render the work 
valuable; it does credit to the editor and deserves an extensive circulation. 
2. —Transactions of the London Horticultural Society. 
(Second Series) Vol. I, Part 1. 
Page 84.— Some Remarks upon the Cultivation of the Straivberry, In a Letter 
to the Assistant Secretary. By Mr. John Fairbairn, F. H. S, Read, 
June 1, 1831. 
After the fruit is set, he stirs the surface of the soil pretty freely, and puts on an 
Jnch, or an inch and a half, of well fermented dung, and in dry weather gives 
abundant waterings upon it; he then lays down flat tiles, having a half circle cut 
out of each of them ; these are painted black, in order to give a stronger attraction 
to the heat His beds are made of light soil, with a small portion of fine Oak 
bark ; the plants are put in, in the usual way, and the tiles laid so as to cover the 
whole bed. By these means Mr. Fairbairn informs us he has found that the fruit 
sets early, and is of a very superior size and flavour. 
