The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-02 00:00:00

THE LADY'S MAGAZINE

Is fuller than usual of elegant, literary gossip,—
tales moral and sentimental, and some small pieces of
poesy, of which as they have nothing of assumption
about theM, we shall not venture to speak irreverently.

THE COURT MAGAZINE—BuIIand Churton.
THE BRITISH MAGAZlNE—Rivington.

This elegant periodical, with its fair paper and its
brilliant engravings, is much too fine an affair to be
rudely handled—it flits before us on its primrose-
coloured wings, like some gaudy butterfly, that we
almost fear to touch, lest we should spoil its beauty.
We must, therefore, hand it over as gently as possible
to the lovers of light reading, with an assurance that
they will nowhere find a more pleasant accompaniment
to their morning chocolate.

For the sake of contrast, which, as every one
knows; is a great source of effect in writing no less
than in painting, we have coupled in the same notice
the grave, dingy-looking, British Magazine. The
last is full, even to overflowing, of that learning which
is not knowledge, though there was a time when it
conferred not only fame, but fortune on the possessor.
But all this has passed, or is rapidly passing away,
and though a man may perchance stumble upon a
mitre by an intimate acquaintance with Greek or He-
brew mysteries, he is not likely, on that account, to
obtain much credit with the world in general. Sure
we are that, on the present occasion, every contributor
must have sate down to his writing-table in full ca-
nonicals, with the fathers on one side of him, and a
score, of lexicons upon the other. Amidst, however,
much uninteresting lore—that is, uninteresting to the
general reader—is a very curious paper on Cologne, as
a seat of the Fine Arts in the middle ages. The
writer, with great ingenuity, endeavours to show that,
WEile Cimabue at Florence was-abandoning the formal
and mechanical system of his Bazantine masters for
the study of Nature, there had long existed, on the
barks of the Rhine, a band of artists pursuing the
same course. If he have not absolutely established
his opinion beyond controversy, he has yet made out
a strong case, and in every respect the paper may be
safely commended to the attention of those 'who have
any relish, either for the Fine Arts or for antiquity.

THE BOTANICAL REGISTER; or Ornamental
Flower Garden and Shrubbery. No. VII. of Vol. 7.
New Series, continued by Dr. LIIIDLET.
The number before us contains two of the sweetest
subjects we have ever met with ; they must become
favourites as they get distributed. They are " AZA-
LEA INDICA" -(the brick-red Chinese Azalea), and
" GILIA TRICOLOR" (three-coloured Gilia). The
former was introduced from China, along with a lovely
variegated kind, which has yet to be published ; it is
remarkably bushy, with a foliage of a rich deep green,
to which a slight rusty tinge is given by the numerous
brown . hairs of the mid-rib and margin ; the flowers
are of a bright clear brick colour, a little tinged with
rose. The latter is perhaps the handsomest of the
family yet received from California, both from the
general appearance of the plant, and the abundance
and
of colour of the flowers. It grows to
brilliancy
the height of about a foot, with an erect stem, and
foliage much resembling that of G. capitata ; but the
flowers are very much longer, and instead of being col-
lected in globose heads widely spread at the end of
long peduncles, they are few in number in each head;
but the peduncles being much shorter and very nume-
rous, they form a large and rather dense panicle, in
which the deep orange of the centre of the colour, and
the light purple or white of the margin, separated by
a circle of deep purple, show off to great advantage.
It is quite hardy, and will grow in any kind of soil.
The time of flowering is from July to September, but

it may be retarded or advanced by a little management.
Nothing can well be prettier than this is when thickly ,
filling a bed a few feet in length and breadth. "Luk-
NUS nanus" (dwarf Lupine), also from California,
may be classed amongst our prettiest annuals. It forms
a low tufted plant, from six inches to a foot in height,
producing a succession of upright shoots, terminated
by several tiers of flowers, which continue to open in
succession for two months. The colours being bright
purple, intermingled with white and rose, a gay varie-
gated
appearance is produced, which is extremely
agreeable when the plant is grown in masses. It is
well adapted for covering flower-beds, or for forming a
compartment in a parterre, or for the edge of a small
clump, or in short for any purpose which requires neat-
ness, and a protracted blooming. If sown in the
autumn it will flower in May and June ; if sown in
spring, it will be in beauty in August and September ;
and by deferring the period of sowing till the beginning
of Juno, it may be made to blosiom as late as Novem-
ber. " RHO ANTHE Manglesii," is named after Cap-
tain Mangles, R.N., who brought it from the Swan
Rivet colony. In token of its beauty, it received the
distinction of a medal at one -of the great exhibitions
in the garden of the Horticultural Society. Its season
of perfection is May and June, at which time there is
nothing in the garden that equals it in beauty, for it
possesses the brilliancy of the Cape Helichrysa,.with-
, out their stiffness and formality. Nothing can exceed
the taste and richness with which the drawings con-
tinue to be executed for this work. There was a pe-
riod, and that not long distant, when the united excel-
lence to be found in this production of Dr. Lindley
would have required gold, instead of its present price,
to possess it. We join with the Gardener's Magazine
in giving it our: unqualified approbation.

To such an extent are the coach proprietors oppos-
ing each other,. that the fare to Hastings, a distance of about
forty miles, have been reduced to 29.-13 righton Paper..