NOTICES OF WORKS ON BOTANY, 
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Sweet’s Flower Garden, edited by D. Don, Esq., contains, 
in the August number, as follows, viz.:— 
1. Pceonia moutan ; var. punicea . Red flowered tree Paeony. A 
splendid seedling from the collection of Sir Abraham Hume, Bart., of 
Wormleybury ; a most desirable addition to this already numerous 
tribe of Chinese plants. 
2. Viola cucullata. Hollow-leaved Violet. A hardy North Ame¬ 
rican plant, introduced about 1772. It is easy of culture and propa¬ 
gation. 
3. Eschscholzia crocea. Saffron-coloured Californian Poppy. This 
is a remarkably showy plant, resembling its congener, the Cali- 
fornica , but having rather larger flowers. It is a biennial, of easy 
culture. 
4. Cratcegus Mexicana. Mexican Hawthorn. A new and distinct 
species, introduced by Mr. Lambert in 1829, and flowered and bore 
fruit for the first time in 1834. The flowers are showy, and the fruit 
are as large as pigeons’ eggs. 
Paxton’s Magazine op Botany, for August, contains the follow¬ 
ing plants, viz.:— 
1. Azalea Indica ; var. Smithii. Smith’s new hybrid Azalea. 
Among many seedling varieties raised by Mr. Smith of Norbiton 
Common, this is one of the most showy, the flowers being large and 
high-coloured. 
2. Bletia Shepherdii. Shepherd’s Bletia. An elegant orchideous 
plant, a native of the West Indies. It was called Limodorum by 
Linnaeus, but separated and renamed by Ruiz and Pavon. This species 
bears a spike of fine purple flowers. 
3. Arbutus procera. A hardy shrub or tree, introduced into this 
country by the late Mr. Douglas, who found it on the west coast of 
America. 
This number contains also some valuable remarks on the culture 
of Or chide ai. 
Smith’s Florist’s Magazine. This new work commenced lately, 
and is designed expressly to meet the increasing taste for florists’ 
flowers. It professes to give figures of all the first-rate flowers culti¬ 
vated, and at present so much regarded by the professional and amateur 
florists; and by the faithful and superior style in which the plates are 
executed, the full descriptions and directions for the culture annexed, 
and the respectable style in which the whole is got up, the work cannot 
