The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-16 00:00:00

TranspaZglast Tools
Trowels_

Wall Nails
Watering Pots
Weed Extractors and
Hooks
Wheel Barrows
Youths' Bets of Teals

i List of Horticultural
e lJnited Kingdom.—
to the Meaument, 411.

CURTIS'S BUDDING KNIFE.—" This is the
M.,„/ neatest Budding Knife we have seen, the ivory handle is
shaped
/Ike the Wide of curved Penknife, sharp and turned up at the point,
and is evidently extremely well contrived for the purpose It la
intended."—Opinlon of Prolor Lindley In the Gardeners' Chro-
nicle, July 29, 1843.
Gomm Poor, Surgical Instrument Maker and Cutler, No. 282,
Strand, London, and at No. 3, Dolphin-sheet, Bristol, begs to call
the attention of the public to the above desirable article. Sent fees to
any part of the kingdom, on receipt of 38 penny postage stamps, or
• post-office order for as. 3d.
G. P. cautions 2 lorieulturists and the Public In general against
numerous imitations of the above article, he being the only appointed

CILASS.—BRITISH and FOREIGN PLATE,
‘_ll CROWN, and SHEET GLASS WAREHOUSE, 49, Broad-
sheet, Bloomsbury. (Established 1793.)
The Proprietor begs to inform his Friends and the Hortktilturel
Public that he has on band a leer stock of British and Foreign Sliest
and Crown Glass of a wry superior quality, and mach as be eau
confidently recommend from Its equality of surfais, complaints havng
been repeatedly made, since the duty has been token •P, of the
inequality of the surface of plies which has been used for hot-houss
purposes. It Is now a well-known fact that irreguaritles or Webb
and dents on the surface of gime are found to act as a lens, concentrat-
ing the rays of the sun, and thereby injuring the more delicate plena.
Superior Sheet Glen, weighing 16 on. to
the square foot, from sd. to 6d. per foot ill
Ditto, ditto, 21 oz. to the square foot- 7 to 9 „
Shirk Crown Glare, from 2 to 6 „
Violet coloured Crown
The Proprietor has alai on hand en inferior quality of Sleet Glans,
=from 13 on. to 16 or. to the foot, from 34d. to 4d., to use
greenhouses or conservatories would be mistaken economy,
experience having proved to us the positive injury produced by its me
for horticultural purpoas, being suitable only for windows and sky-
lights in inferior
The 10011 i economical glass to be used with safety to the plants le
Crown, in Mee from 6 by to by 6, both to the first expense and in
repairing; some people forget that large panes of glass break as well
m small ones, and the larger the piece the greater the chance of its
breeking.
Gluing done in any part of the country by contract, er at so morn
per act
ALEXANDER MARSHALL, 49, Broad-street, Bloomsbury, lAndon.

NEW EDITION of LINDLEY'S SCHOOL BOTANY.
In demy lice, price Sc. 6d.,

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SCHOOL BOTANY;
Or, the RUDIMENTS of BOTANICAL .SCIENCE.
By lOILN LINDLEY, lila, P.R.S.,
Professor of Botany in Unirersity College, London.
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A New Edition : with Numerous Alterations and nearly
Four Hundred Illustrations. . . .

This work Ina arillinal prepared. in badge, ts mg& naggnietina
of the University of London, by which it was required or aD students,
that, two years previously to proceeding to their tint degree, they
should be examined, among other subjects, tin "The characters and
differences of inc principal natural classes and orders of plants be-
longing to the Flora of Europe, in the botanical amend:anon of De
Candolle."
The obvious paepaae of this regulation was to make young men
acquainted with the names and properties of the irreligion that
sofrounds them; so that, after receiving what is mind a liberal
education, they might not be thrown upon the world, ignorant of
the names, at least, of the commonest plants of their own counay.
In the opinion of the author, the measure was mikulated to effect a
real good, and to supply a wide gap in the common reit:ins of a
where It is most desirable that some tat' arid history should be
Introduced, if it be only to relieve the tedium of the less attractive
b'iud Les to which young persons are neeemarily subjected.
Cut It was also important for the sake of its subsbuitial
Tare may be a difference of opiates as to the advantage of spending
much time upon the study of botany ; but there is one opinion os.y
is to the importance of knowing the names of the plants of which Illf n
has to make use, or which he is continually meeting There f
not at the present day a person of any InteUlgenee, Ignorant of such
things, who does net regret that some portion of his youth should not
have been devoted to this kind of inquiry.
The Dersetshire gentleman who put himself to oonsiderstee troubfe
and no small expense to carry a sack of Hornbeam seed from Florence
to Landon, would have been saved the exertion had he known .tuft
the Hornbeam grew in abundance on his own estate; and it ma be
safely asserted that every one of that celebrated court party which
discovered a prodigy in the beautiful tree in Windsor Park, wined
have been glad if their early education had geared them the mor.i.lea.
ton of learning front Loed Y. that the tree in question was only the
Spanish Chestnut.
• ' • • "

Whatever the future Intentions of a student of botany mgy be it Is
indispensable that the Orbs step to be taken should be that of gaining
an moan:name with the common plants of his own country. In the
absence of that, be cannot make a single move in advance. He must
fist master the rudiments of the science, and muter them correejy.
This little iv& has been prepared for the purpose of enabling Wan to
du so. It contains all that it is necessary to know in order to make a
fair beginning, and it includes no more; eo that if any one should have
the patience to master the whole contents of the volume, be would
then be in a position to carry his Inquiries onwards with ease. But it
is not really necessary to become acquainted with all the plants bem
mentioned.

The reason why so many species are Introduced, which are Dismal]
importance, is to enable the teacher to obtain at least acme part of
them to Illustrate his teaching. Local circumstances, and eapeeially
our uncertain seasons, will always render it difficult to procure every
thing here mentioned; but no conceivable eircumstanees can, in this
country, offer impediments to the examination of a large part.
! • - • • • -• • • - • • -

Is selecting the subjects with which the etude-t is to be made
acquainted, those have been generally chosen which are within any
man's reach ; and to render the acquisition of them more easy, the
vulgar names are added. A very small stun of money will enable
every schoolmaster to cultivate the whole in a garden, where they
may be constantly at hand.

In framing the technical characters of genera and species, all the
more minute disiinctions, the detection of which requires the aid a a
microscope, havebecn intentionally disregarded • and attention is nave
especially ailed to those which are obvious enough to be °teemed by
any ova havlug a packet Icon.
Which of the European natural orders i regard as the "prtn-
dpel,"
will be apparent, from the prominence given here to certain
natural orders beyond others. The teacher is not, however, recom-
usenisialiagether to omit theft which are stated to be comparatively
unbepertast. The wisest course will be to make the students
thoroughly asqualnled, in the first instance, with the natuml orders
which are Marked from I. to ',XXIII., and then to explain more
briefly tie fillbrimere alba= to which no numbers are prefixed.

i'l'amikasks. tla trash, lhiicularly recommended to lake core
ha that, sea team& , each student is presided with a
pocket liar of Meet • focus, and a few quires of paper ;
the former to milt him in exasetning, and the latter in dryiter, the
Leech erpecimes• of plants daily brought before him. There Is no
method so entails as the latter, to aectottom young persons to mu.
mate correctly tha ilieresseee between one plant and another • and.
namlt is presumed, • will think of teaching Botany, withCiu, an
ample supply at awl specimens, which he may disLrthute among
his class, for the purpose of being examined and studied at leisure.
Indeed, it is mem to study botany, union this provision is made
for the acquisition of those habits of observation which render
natural history OD posallarty rmitl as • branch of mental training.

When stnisegnd• eat ssijoy the advantages of a competent
teacher, their lest pin will be to put this book into the hands of on
intelligent gardener. and to induce him to furniah them weekly with
the
em=that are mimed in It. At home they can compare the
whist they may And with the plants and this
Med of preetiss fo. if ell others, the meet sorb& le Yd advsu-
MOMS resolle.
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tWedaeed as this mamba. Zsmalsese ehems MOy kr
of Weals& it le Milomemble that se mei sseereeyasiMlebeW
should be 'led ht pmerler the Meelietions. To Me voisulmed
r pwr4 ervispidsubiee —aloe seat =iallmemezduted, yr wash
=mem teen Imetreet. The sub wow employe:Tßln
miler k Issymeible that any mistake should be matte by
emu the am* imayeelemeed es to the ghats to which they below.
The avilltieb biles% eased to ertht• by, Mr. Palmer's Glypho
grayish) sr amilesous modes of swearing, which have been
ehiedy as this easeion, leave little to desire on the smee
of
Cider London.
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CORTINTIL
CII.OI7IPLANTS IN GENERAL
11.—CLASSES OF PLANTS.
lII.—OF THE SPBDIVISIONS OF MOGEN&
IV.—OF THALAMIFLOR AL EXOGENS.
V.—OP CALYCIFLORAL EXOGENS.
VI.—OF COROLLIFLORAL EXOGENS.
VII.-0P MONOCHLAMYDEOUS EXOGENS.
VIII.—OF ENDOGENS.
CRIPTOGAMS, or ACROGENS.