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horses, and cows, being received and relished with apparently equal avidity, and 
to the same good purpose. Only dilute the strong liquors sufficiently, and 
give them often enough, and the plants will assuredly make a good use of them. 
Few plants can convert sewage with greater despatch and to better purpose 
than Zonal Pelargoniums. You may almost see them transform death into life, 
and corruption into beauty and glory before your eyes.—D. T. Fish. 
GARDEN LITERATURE. 
<|NDER this head, the first subject which we have now to refer to, is a grand 
imperial folio publication, to which we have before made allusion, and 
which is entitled Les Promenades de Paris.* This sumptuous work^ 
which was commenced when Paris was in its glory, and which represents 
Paris as it was in those halcyon days which preceded her recent disasters, gives a 
minutely detailed account of the history, formation, and renovation of her public 
gardens and parks, her squares, and her tree-embellished boulevards, and from 
this point of view has now acquired historic value. A large proportion of the 
book has been issued, those parts relating to the Bois de Boulogne, and the Bois 
des Vincennes, being completed, or nearly so. The MS. of much of the remainder 
was, we learn, destroyed at the Hotel de Ville during the disturbances, but fortu¬ 
nately the author is able to replace it, so that the work will sustain no loss or 
abridgment in consequence. As a drawing-room book, there are few which can 
compare with this for the luxuriousness of its typography, and its numerous 
illustrations, and those who are induced to add it to their libraries on this score 
will not be disappointed. From a gardening point of view, it has a double in¬ 
terest, derived from its value to proprietors in suggesting features which they may 
desire to see carried out on their own demesnes, and from the hints which land¬ 
scape gardeners and cultivators, who may be charged with the details of working 
out improvements, may derive from it. The numerous plans, both on wood and 
steel, are especially valuable. There are, besides, many illustrations of the orna¬ 
mental plants used for decorating the French gardens, some of which, through the 
courtesy of the publisher, we are enabled to introduce to our pages, and of which 
the annexed figure of Philodendron pertusum is an example, this being one of the 
sub-tropical plants which the Parisian style of gardening has done so much to 
introduce amongst us. Such a book as this should find its way into every public 
library, as well as to the book-shelves of every country gentleman. 
We have further to note the completion of the volume on Alpine Plants j* 
by Mr. Wooster. The object of this work has been to popularize a most interest¬ 
ing series of plants, and we trust it has met with such an amount of support as 
may induce the author to renew his labours. There are 54 plates, representing 
upwards of 100 subjects; these are printed in colours, and in most cases furnish 
very faithful and happy illustrations of the plants, which are selected as “ the 
* Les Promenades de Paris. Par A. Alphand. Paris: J. Rothschild, 
t Alpine Plants. Edited by David Wooster, F.R.H.S. London: Bell and Daldy. 
