The Sun.
London, England, 1827-07-28 00:00:00

BOTANICAL WORKS.

1. The BOTANICAL REGISTER, No. 144, (con-
tinued Monthly), completed the Twelfth Volume. Price
4s. With an Appendix, containing an Alphabetical Index
to the Volume, a General Index to the Twelve Volumes,
&c. Price. Is. By Sydenham Edwards, F.L. S. and others.
2. CISTINE2E, the NATURAL ORDER of CISTUS,
or ROCK-ROSE, No. 11, to be completed in one volume,
royal Svo. A Number to be published every alternate
month. Price Ss..

3. GERANIACE/E ; or Natural Order of the Beauti-
fuleFamily of the Geraniums. No. 87, 3s. To be con-
tinued Monthly. Each Number contains four coloured
Figures, highly and correctly finished, from living Plants,
with their Scientific and English Names and Mode of Cul-
ture. By Robert Sweet, F.L.S.
4. SWEET'S HORTUS BRITANNICUS ; or a Cata-

logue of all Plants cultivated in the Gardens of Great
Britain, whether exotic or indigenous, arranged according
to the Natural Orders to which they belong, with a refer-
ence to the Linntean Classes and Orders; and their Scien-
tific and English Names. By Robert Sweet, F.L.S. One
thick vol. Svo. I/. is.
5. The HOT-HOUSE and GREEN-HOUSE MA-
NUAL, or Botanical Cultivator. Third Edition. By
Robert Sweet, F. L. S. 12s.
6. A TREATISE on BULBOUS ROOTS, contain-
ing a Botanical Arrangement and Description of the Plants
heretofore included under the Genera Amaryllis, -Cyrtan-
thus, Crinum, and Pancratium ; with General Observa-
tions and Directions for their Cultivation. Illustrated with
coloured Plates. By the Hon. and Rev. Wm. Herbert. ss.
7. ROSARUM MONOGRAPHIA ; or, a Botanical
History of Roses; with 19 plates, IS beautifidly coleured.
By John Lindley, Esq. F.L.S. royal Svo. 1/. Is.
S. lIOItTUS GRAMINEUS WOBURNENSIS; or,
au Account of the Results of various Experiments on the
Produce and Fattening Properties of different Grasses, and
other Plants, used as the Food of the more valuable do-
mestic animals; carried on for a number of years at Wo-
burn Abbey, by command of the Duke of Bedford. By
G..Sinclairp F.L.S. and F.S. H., Gardener to his Grace.
Third edition, with 60 plates. Price 11. 10s. plain; and
coloured, 21. 25., under the Author's immediate inspection.
9. An ESSAY on the WEEDS of AGRICULTURE;
with their Common and Botanical Names, their respective
Characters and bad Qualities, whether as infesting Samples
of Corn, or encumbering the Soil. Also, Practical Re-
marks on their
Destruction by Fallowing or otherwise.
The posthut"fil* Work of Ben. Holdich, Esq. late Editor
of the Fat-11-lees Journal. . Edited by G. Sinclair, F.L. S.,
F. H.S. Second Edition, price Ss. 6d.
10. The FRUIT GROWER'S INSTRUCTOR ; or,
a Practical - tildise oxi Fruit Trees, from the Nursery: to
Maturity ; with an effective remedy for prevention of the
Canker is Apple Tress. By G, Bliss, Nnooryman. 6s.

WORqESTER MUSIC MEETING.—We are
happy to understand that a confident expectation is enter-
tained, that the Queen of Wirtemberg will be present at
our ensuing Music Meeting. Her Majesty, (then the
Princess Royal) accompanied her Royal Parents to. Wor-
cester in 1788.-IVorcester Journal.

On Thursday *the Mt sselburgh Troop of
Mid-Lothian Yeomanry gave" an elegant dejeune to their
Colonel, Lord Viscount Melville, in the Hall of the
" Honest Town," Capt. Wauchope in the chair, at which
were present, Lieut.-Colonel Sir John Hope, Sir William
Arbuthnot, General Stirling, 42d regiment; Philip Dun..
das, M.P.,: Colonel Teasdale, Ensign Wallace, Adjutant
Hill, Ist regiment of, dragoons, with several other distin-
guished old soldiers and citizens. The prize shot for
by the Carabineera of the regiment, on Monday se'nnight,
was won liy Corporal Mutter, of •the Dalkeith Troop,
after a keeit,contest, in which a great deal of dexterk was
displayed,.—Scotsman,