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The Field, the Garden, and the Woodland. The object of

this elegant little book is not to teach botany, but to inculcate a taste for it, by bringing together some of the most interesting facts connected with vegetation, whether relating to the wonders, the beauties, or the utilities of the vegetable world. This purposes agreeably accomplished by the text, whilst the eye is attracted by a considerable number of wood-cuts ; but the book possesses some of that hard dryness which distinguishes the Utilitarians whet they aim at rising to eloquence of style or descending to sweet- ness of manner.