seeds. The leaves are narrower than those of C. scándens, and the whole plant is more delicate. The flowers are yellow. (B. M. R., No. 50., April.) Convolvulacea. 491. IPOMOE`A longifolia Benth long-leaved A or 5 jl.s W Mexico 1838. S 1 Bot. reg. 1840, 21. The flowers are large and white, and have a scent resembling noyeau. The root is long and spindle-shaped, and the stem requires support. It flowers from July to September; and it should be grown in rich loam, in a shady situation. It is increased by seeds, or suckers of the young shoots, which spring from the crown of the root. (Bot. Reg., April.) Scrophularinæ. 480. VERBA'SCUM taúricum Hort. A showy verbascum with rose-coloured flowers, which blossomed in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden in August, 1839; and which, Sir W. J. Hooker thinks, was probably sent from the German gardens to Dr. Graham.” (Bot.' Mag., May.) 66 76. SA'LVIA linariöldes Hort. Linaria-like or 1 B ? South Amer. ... [p. 77. s.1.p Paxt. mag. of bot. vii. A very beautiful species of Sálvia, with large bright blue flowers. The plant is decidedly shrubby, and not above 1 ft. high; it retains its leaves during the winter, and flowers abundantly. It should be grown in a compost of very sandy loam and peat, and kept in a cool border with very little water during winter, as it is apt to throw out weak and sickly shoots if stimulated too soon. It is propagated by cuttings of the young wood struck in spring. (Part. Mag. of Bot., May.) Proteaceæ. 316. GREVILLEA 2609 dùbia Bot. Mag. t. 3798. Betulinacea or Amentàceæ. Alnus jorullensis H. B. et K. A fine species of alder, with large oval acuminate leaves, the veins of which are prominent, and which are downy on the under side. A native of Mexico. (B. M. R., No. 52., April.) Garryàceæ. Gárrya laurifolia Hart. A new species from Mexico, which appears handsomer than G. elliptica. Only one seed has germinated in the Horticultural Society's Garden. Mr. Hartweg has found "no fewer than five" new species of Gárrya" during his travels in Mexico." (B. M. R., No. 53., April.) Orchidaceae. 2523. CYMBIDIUM [25. péndulum Swartz pendulous or 3 au Y.RW Nepal 1837. O r.w.p Bot. reg. 1840, Synonymes: C. crassifolium Wall., Epidendrum pêndulum Roxb. The flowers are of a dingy yellowish brown, with a red and white labellum. "As they hang downwards, the plant should be suspended from the roof of the stove." The leaves are 2 or 3 feet long, and very stiff and leathery. (Bot. Reg., May.) 2526. Brássia 29587 Lancedna var. viridiflòra Bot. Mag. 3794. Brássia verrucosa Lindl. "A plant of a particularly graceful habit." The flowers are of a greenish yellow, and the labellum is covered at the base "with green warts." (B. R. M., No. 66., May). 2553. CATTLEYA 22726 labiata var. àtro-sanguínea Paxt. Mag. of Bot. vii. p. 73. A handsome variety of a well-known and splendid plant; introduced from La Guayra by Mr. Low of Clapton in 1839. It is the labellum which is of a dark purplish red. (Part. Mag. of Bot., May.) A Mexican species of Epidéndrum sent to Woburn by Mr. Parkinson, with long densely clothed spikes of whitish flowers. (Bot. Mag., April.) 3593. MILTO`NIA cándida var. flavescens Bot. Mag. 3793. Only differing from the species in having a yellowish white lip. (Bot. Mag., April.) 3597. MONACHA'NTHUS ròseo-álbus Hook. rose and white [t. 3796. 口 or 2 ap R.w Brazil 1839. O s.p Bot. mag. An orchideous plant from Brazil, with long racemes of curiously shaped flowers, the lip of which is edged with long deep red fringe. After describing the species, Sir W. J. Hooker observes that he has "preserved the generic name of Monachánthus, rather from consistency than a conviction of the soundness of the genus. It might, with greater propriety, be called Catasètum sect. Monachánthus." (Bot. Mag., May.) 3728. ODONTOGLO'SSUM maculatum Lindl. spotted or 2 au Y.B Mexico 1839. O r.w.p Bot. reg. 1840, 30. This species, Dr. Lindley observes, appears to be " one of the prettiest of the family, because of its large two-coloured spotted flowers and drooping habit, and it seems to have much the manner of growth and constitution of an Oncidium." (Bot. Reg., May.) Cleisostèma maculosa. A vanda-like plant, with small yellowish brown and pink fleshy blossoms. (B. R. M., No. 67., May). REVIEWS. ART. I. Catalogue of Works on Gardening, Agriculture, Botany, Rural Architecture, &c., lately published, with some Account of those considered the more interesting. LE Bon Jardinier; Almanach pour l'Année 1840. Par A. Poiteau et Vilmorin. 8vo, pp. 1055, two engraved plates. Paris, 1840. Another edition of one of the best standard works on gardening and agriculture published in Europe. The body of the work is stereotyped, and the additions annually made form introductions, sometimes of two or three sheets, and sometimes of only a few pages. In the present edition they extend to forty-seven pages, and their essence is as under: Artichoke roots may be preserved through the winter in a cellar, or in a heap of dry sand thatched, and replanted in spring. Tropa olum tuberòsum is worth cultivating. Céleri-rave frisé and Chou-rave à feuilles decoupées are new varieties of turnip-rooted celery and borecole. Chou de Billaudeau (see Gard. Mag. for 1839, p. 568.) is nothing more than the chou colossal. Courge sucrière du Brésil is a new and excellent gourd. E'chalote de Jersey, known in Scotland as the Russian shallot, and E'chalote grosse de M. Houtton are recommended. Myatt's pine and Elton's seedling strawberry, Haricot noir de Belgique, and several other plants well known in British gardens, but still rare in France, are described; and a few plants, such as the sweet potato, better known in France than in England, are enumerated, and their merits discussed. The civilisation of the wild carrot by M. Vilmorin has been recorded before, and we have here a notice of two essays to improve the dandelion and the wild parsnep. The dandelion was blanched by covering the plants with sand. Four new sorts of potato are described; seven sorts of clover, and a number of wheats and other agricultural plants. Urtìca nívea L. has been tried as a thread plant; and Abies [Picea] Pinsapo Bois. (see our volume for 1839, p. 339.) is described as having the seminal leaves more numerous by one or two than those of the common silver fir, and also longer, narrower, less flat, and not at all prickly-pointed like those of P. cephalónica. Among the new instruments are the gardener's compass, invented by Madame Adanson; a watering-pot, for watering pots on shelves over head; a hand-bill for cutting box edgings, instead of shears; and some others, already well known. The concluding article is on a jardin d'hiver, a new plant structure, erected by M. Fion, which is said to form a very interesting winter promenade in the midst of the trees of China and Japan. Otia Hispanica, &c. A Selection of the rarer Plants of Spain, &c. By Philip Barker Webb. Part II., 1840, folio, pp. 8, one coloured plate. Paris, Brockhouse; London, Coxhead. Part I. of this work is noticed p. 94.; that before us is wholly occupied with marine fuci, which are described by Dr. Montagne, and beautifully engraved and coloured. The species are Griffithsia flabellata Mont., G. Schousboe Mont., Gigantina gaditàna Mont., G. conférta Schousb., and Delessèria interrupta Ag. Planta utiliores. Illustrations of useful Plants employed in Medicine, &c. By M. A. Burnett. Nos. I, II, III, and IV. 4to. London, 1839-40. Each number contains two coloured plates, with letterpress descriptions from the unpublished MSS. of the late Professor G. T. Burnett, and the price of each is only 1s. Miss Burnett is the sister of the late professor of botany in King's College; and of the usefulness of this work, as well as of the fidelity of its execution, we have the authority of Dr. Sigmond, in the following extract from a letter printed on the wrapper of No. II. : 66 They [the plates of the tobacco plant and the blue passion-flower] are executed with great fidelity, and accurately coloured. Such a work must prove unusually interesting, from its furnishing portions of the unpublished manuscripts of my learned friend, the late Professor Burnett. George G. Sigmond, M.D. August 31. 1839." Would that any thing that we could say might promote the sale of this publication; not only to put us in possession of the unpublished manuscripts of Professor Burnett, for whose memory we have the very highest respect, but for the sake of his amiable and accomplished orphan sister! Such a work from such an authoress merits the especial patronage of the families of professors and medical men, and also of every lady of wealth and rank who wishes to encourage talent and promote virtue. Kew and its Gardens. By Frederick Sheer, Esq. Post 8vo, pp. 69. London, 1840. Besides the description indicated in the titlepage, some notice is taken in the preface of the alleged intention of government to give up the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew; and an appendix contains a petition to the Lords of the Treasury from the Richmond Literary and Scientific Institution, praying that the botanic gardens at Kew may not be abolished. Similar petitions, it is stated, were agreed on at the Richmond and Brentford Mechanics' Institutions. Della Origine ed Anzianità dell' Orto Botanico di Padova, &c. On the Origin and Antiquity of the Botanic Garden of Padua. By Professor Visiano, Prefect of that Garden. 8vo, pp. 43. Venice, 1839. The origin of the garden is traced to 1533, and an account of it is brought down to 1787. By Robert Buist, Nur- The American Flower-Garden Directory, &c., &c. seryman and Florist, Philadelphia. 8vo, pp. 380. This differs from most of the American works on gardening, in being an original composition from beginning to end. It is most judiciously adapted to the country in which it is published; and the author is one of the best cultivators in the United States. There is no American work that we know of at all to be compared with it in point of usefulness. We owe the author an 1840. JUNE, X apology for not having sooner acknowledged the receipt of the copy he kindly sent us above a year ago. The Rose Amateur's Guide, &c. By T. Rivers, jun. Second edition, greatly enlarged. Small 8vo, pp. 185. London, 1840. The present is a greatly improved edition of a work which we have commended in our volume for 1838, p. 94. It is here in a more portable form, with various additions, and with a valuable " Abridged List of Roses, adapted for Amateurs possessing small Gardens, or for those beginning to form a Collection; selected so as to give the leading Variations of Colour." We cannot sufficiently commend Mr. Rivers for having given this abridged list; for the long columns of names in the catalogues of the rose nurseries, both French and English, are quite appalling. It appears from Mr. Rivers's abridged list that the essence of all the cultivated roses may be included in twenty-five sections, including 185 sorts. Allowing 2 square feet for each sort, a bed 40 ft. by 10 ft. would contain a representative system of all the roses in cultivation. Descrizione dei Funghi Mangerecci più communi dell' Italia, e de' Velenosi che possono co' medesimi confondersi, &c. Description of the eatable Fungi less common in Italy, and of the poisonous Sorts which are most liable to be confounded with them. By Carlo Vittadini, M.D. 4to, pp. 364., with 44 coloured plates. Milan, 1835. To those who study the fungi this must be a very valuable work, and we believe that there are but few copies of it in England. The plates are very beautifully engraved on copper from drawings by Vittadini from nature, and they are most carefully coloured. It would be an interesting and useful task, for a gardening amateur resident in Italy, to try how far all the edible sorts enumerated in Vittadini's book might be cultivated in a garden; and afterwards their spawn might be sent to England for the same trials here, Verhandlungen der K. K. Landwirthschafts-Gesellschaft in Wien, &c. Transactions of the Imperial and Royal Agricultural Society of Vienna, &c. Vol. VIII. Part II. 8vo, pp. 146. Vienna, 1840. An article on the different modes and times of felling timber, and one on the vineyards of Austria, may be interesting to some of our readers. Vol. LII. Transactions of the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. 1839. The agricultural articles in this part are, On Improvements in the Culture of the Cambridge Fens, and on the Cultivation of Potatoes from Seed. Draining with a steam-engine, and improving the outfall of rivers in the manner alluded to in our volume for 1839, p. 563., have enabled the occupiers of fen lands to avail themselves of the valuable strata of clay and marl which are now accessible at a very short depth from the surface, and by which a new and most advantageous system of farming has been introduced. The practice of spreading clay and marl upon the surface of fen, moss, or peat bog has long been in use in Scotland, as shown in Steel's History of Peat Moss; and it is now practised generally on the great Bedford Level in Cambridgeshire, which contains upwards of 300,000 acres. The quantity laid on is about 200 cubic yards per acre; it is thrown out of the pits or subsoil by hand with the spade, and the total expense is from 50s. to 70s. per acre. W. Buchanan, Esq., of Chalk Lodge, near Cheshunt, sowed Potato Seeds in April, 1836, the tubers produced by which were taken up in October of the same year, and replanted the following spring. In the autumn of the second year an excellent crop was obtained of tubers of very good size; thus showing, that, by means of transplanting the seedlings and giving them abundance of room in good light rich soil, a tolerable crop may be obtained the first year, and a very good crop the second. An Analysis of the East Window of Carlisle Cathedral, by Mr. Billings, is very interesting, and shows what profound masters the Gothic architects were, in all that relates to construction. Report on A. M. Perkins's Patent Steam Boiler. By Josiah Parkes, Esq., Civil Engineer. 4to, pp. 19, one folding plate. London, 1840. Mr. Perkins's improvements being more adapted for engineering purposes than for heating hot-houses, we have only to record the title of the work, as having been sent to us. Twenty Years' Experience in Australia, &c. Small 8vo, pp. 115, third edition, 15,000. London, 1840. Price 6d. The object of this very cheap tract, the author of which is said to be Dr. Udney, is to "demonstrate the extraordinary advantages of emigration to New South Wales, alike to men of capital and the labouring classes." It also contains "facts and observations, showing the present circumstances and prospects of New Zealand," to which colony the author of this tract does not seem favourable. MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. ART. I. General Notices. GLAZING with Lead instead of Putty. (p. 275.)-In reply to your note respecting the paragraph on glazing with lead instead of putty, I must premise that "the sides of the sash bars" should have been "the side bars of the sashes." Of course by lead is meant lead lap. The inconveniences attendant on glazing with putty are many; and I need only mention the parting of the putty from the wood, even where the roof is kept well painted, and especially those arising from the replacing of broken panes. When the last-mentioned work is to be done, the woodwork is sure to be damaged in cutting out the old putty; and, what is a far greater mischief, the corners of the new pane are chipped off by the glazier, because, unless the glass is of precisely the same thickness, he cannot otherwise insert it underneath the pane above. A constant drip is thus secured, and you know what must be the consequences. With lead lap it is otherwise; the lead has merely to be raised, the new pane inserted, and a little of the soft putty or white lead rubbed into the sides, and the work is done. This plan of glazing I have never carried into effect, except in small pieces as specimens of its practicability; but, shortly after I first contrived it, I saw your notice in your volume for 1836 (p. 313.) of Barrett's Nursery at Wakefield, where you mention that a hot-house was glazed in some such manner. I met with Barrett about a year afterwards, and he told me he had not a single "drip" in the house. Mr. Beaton wrote me that such glazing is done at Birmingham, and I presume there will be no difficulty in getting this kind of work executed there. I do not, however, see any necessity for employing any one but a common glazier who has been accustomed to work what, I believe, is called "church work." My plan would be this. To glaze each row of the slide or sash by itself, putting in the panes in the usual way, to rub in the soft putty used in such work, and carefully close the lead upon the glass, especially where the panes overlap. When the required number of rows to make a sash or slide are finished, they ought to stand a week or two to harden the putty. The sash itself should be precisely like the ordinary one where putty is used, except that the portion or strip of wood which separates the rows of panes must be cut entirely away, or rather never be formed; and, instead of the usual rebate at the sides and top of the sash, a groove should be made (say quarter of an inch deep) to admit the outside lead lap. The whole must next be well painted. Then take a row of panes, open the outside lap of one of its sides, and insert the closed lap of the row |