NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
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The Floricultural Magazine and Miscellany of Garden¬ 
ing. Conducted by Robert Marnock, Curator of the Sheffield 
Botanical and Horticultural Garden. 
Through the civility of the publishers we have been favoured with 
eleven numbers of the hirst of these works, and number one of the 
second. Both will be highly useful, more especially for those who 
have neither time to peruse, nor means to purchase, large and expen¬ 
sive works. The first is intended to be published in monthly numbers, 
demy 8vo, price sixpence, and was commenced August 1st, 1835. We 
quite agree with what the authors have advanced in the address 
printed with the first number, that “ it will be found of especial utility 
to young gardeners, and all persons w T ho are desirous of obtaining 
a knowledge of our native plants, while it may be found not unac¬ 
ceptable to the scientific botanist.” Each number contains twelve 
figures, six on a page, with letter-press descriptions of the whole. 
An edition will also be published with coloured plates, price one 
shilling. 
Considering that the descriptions are taken from the first autho¬ 
rities—that both generic and specific characters are added—history, 
uses, and localities given—and that the figures, though small, are 
faithful, and cannot easily be mistaken—we must come to the conclu¬ 
sion that it is the cheapest, as well as one of the most useful, works on 
British botany ever offered to the public. 
Of the Floricultural Magazine we augur well; it is called for 
by the prevailing and universally increasing taste for flowers and every 
other branch of horticulture. The conductor’s station as curator of a 
highly respectable and prosperous botanical and horticultural garden, 
will afford and be ever supplying him with objects for discussion or 
representation in his periodical. He is also well known and much 
respected among his brethren, whether scientific botanists or practical 
gardeners, and consequently will command, no doubt, an extensive 
correspondence. He is also favourably situated for ensuring a large 
circulation of his magazine: a very great majority of manufacturers, 
whether masters or operatives, are enthusiastically fond of flowers and 
small fruits, and Mr. Marnock’s cheap work is, therefore, well adapted 
for such amateurs. 
The complexion of this first number promises well; it contains some 
valuable original floricultural matter, and a great mass of floricultural 
intelligence. The embellishments are a plate of three of our newest 
and much-admired plants, namely, the Clianthus punicus, Mahonia 
repens, and the Brugmansia sanguined, very well executed, and accom- 
