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NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS ON BOTANY OR 
GARDENING. 
Botany. —Publishing in parts, under the superintendence of the 
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. By Dr. Lindley. 
Four of these parts are already published, and appear to be an abridg¬ 
ment of the author’s larger works on the same subject. The treatise 
will comprise Structural, Physiological, Descriptive, and Systematic 
Botany, and will include the opinions of all the most eminent botanists 
on these different branches of the science, as embraced by the author 
himself. 
Arboretum Britannicum. By Mr. Loudon. We have been 
favoured with the already-published numbers of this ingenious and 
interesting work. The fourth, or April number contains, besides 
twelve octavo plates, eight pages of letter-press, containing the history 
of the introduction of hardy trees and shrubs into Great Britain during 
the last century. This is an amusing part of the publication, and more 
especially as a few biographical sketches are added of the introducers. 
This feature of the work is also highly useful, as forming a condensed 
chronicle of the introduction of those plants which now form or diver¬ 
sify our woods and shrubberies, and which information is only to be 
gained by turning over a great many scarce books. To the possessors 
of trees and shrubs, this information is interesting, because, looking at 
their specimens at the present time, a good idea may be had of their 
fitness for the climate and situation, supposing them to have been pro¬ 
cured a few years after their first introduction into the nurseries of the 
country. 
A Treatise on the Acacia (Robinict pseudo-acacia), by W. 
Withers, Esq., of Holt, Norfolk ; together with Observations on 
Planting and Pruning Forest-Trees, by Mr. John Sanders, is in pre¬ 
paration. 
A complete Account of the Hop, with an Essay on Blight 
in Corn, will shortly be published, by E. J. Lance, of Lewisham, in 
Kent. 
