By Elias A. Long. Orange Judd Co., New York.

No work issued for many years in our country has come before us that we can more cordially welcome than this. Books on fruits, flowers, and vegetables, are common enough; but on ornamental gardening generally, we have had nothing that was worthy of intelligent attention and at the same time just suited to the wants of every-day life. Scott's "Suburban Home Grounds" is a magnificent work. To our mind, not even Europe with all its wealth of garden taste and wealth of means, has issued its superior; but it is a work suited to the best specimens of gardening - to the wants of those already somewhat advanced in rural taste; or to the desires of those who want to make perfection in the art a special study. No good garden library is perfect without a copy of "Scott's Suburban Home Grounds." But there are thousands in our country who know but little of ornamental gardening, who desire to know more, and who have to be taught gardening almost as we teach the alphabet to children. There have been attempts of this kind before, but their misfortunes were, they as a general rule mistook a want of knowledge for stupidity, and they left the reader with little desire to know more than what they taught. This is not one of that class.

Assuming the reader to know little, he is not burdened, but led on intelligently, till by the time he is through, he will be an accomplished landscape gardener. We really think that every home in the country will profit by having this book in the library; and gardeners especially should get and study it. A general diffusion of this book among those who "lay out places," and do garden work, would be a great blessing to gardening in America.