Edited by Robert Hogg, LL.D., F.L.S. London: David Bogue, 3 St Martin's Place; Hereford: Jakeman & Carner.

The second part of this magnificent work more than maintains its high-class art in the splendidly executed chromolithographs of Apples and Pears. We have never met with such faithful representations, on paper, of the fruits with which this work is illustrated. The blemishes are as faithfully represented - where they exist - as any other features. Perhaps any one who is not acquainted with the high colour which the sunny south lays on the cheeks of the Foxwhelp, Pearmain's, and other Apples - as well as on some Pears, such as Flemish Beauty - may be inclined to think the colour overdone. Such, however, is not the case. The letterpress opens with a chapter on "Apple Lore," from the pen of Henry S. Bull, M. D. Then follows a high-class engraving of John, first Lord Viscount Scudamore, with a sketch of his life, from which it appears he took great interest in all rural affairs, including orchards - also written by Dr Bull. Then there is an engraving of the present celebrated Cordon Pear wall at Homelacey, now in the occupation of Sir Henry C. Scudamore Stanhope, with the details and results of the system as practised at Homelacey, which is well worth the attention of all who have walls to plant with Pear trees.

This portion of the work is from the pen of Sir H. C. S. Stanhope, who takes great interest in fruit culture. Then the number closes with coloured figures and other engravings of forty-one different kinds of Apples and Pears, with their history and description, by Dr Robert Hogg. This second part of the great work is altogether a magnificent and very instructive one. It ought to be in the hands of every proprietor and cultivator of these fruits. We would again express the hope that so fine a work should not conclude by giving merely the Pomona of a county. It is most desirable that it should be uational.