" Vegetation, elements and structure ; organisation, vegetable life ; distinctions of vegetables in the Acotyledoneae, Monocotyledonese, and Di- cotyledoneae ; organic structure of dicotyledonous plants ; sap, seat of vegetable life, origin of buds, appendages of the stem, causes of barrenness ; application of physiological know- ledge to sowing, transplanting, propagation, pruning and training; cross impregnation, vegetable food, diseases of ve- getables, insects destructive to plants, the felling of timber, grubbing, longevity of trees, conclusion.

" On some of the points in physiology the views of the author are quite pecu- liar ; and, among the facts adduced in relation to these views, and to all parts of the subject, there is much of original and interesting matter.

The author, in his preface, thus speaks of his own performance : " The work will be found a compendium of the discoveries and best authenticated facts which have appeared in the writings of others ; and which have been proved in the practice and experience of the writer, or in that of his contemporaries, during the last fifty years.

He trusts that new matter enough will be found to justify the publication ; and though but a rough sketch, which, from his very limited knowledge of chemistry, he has not been able to fill up as he wished, still he entertains a hope that, such as it is, it may receive amplification of an abler pen, and accom- plish his aim of rendering vegetable physiology better and more generally understood.

" A Lady : General Observations on Vegetation, translated from the French of Brisseau-Mirbel ; to which are added numerous and extensive Notes : intended to in- spire young persons with a taste for Botany, by presenting to them a birds-eye view of the whole Vegetable King- dom.