Text: C. F. Briggs (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), February 15, 1845, vol. 1, no. 7, p. ??

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GUANO; its Origin, Properties, and Uses — showing its importance to the Farmers of the United States as a cheap and valuable Manure, with directions for using it. New York: Wiley and Putnam. 1845.

This pamphlet contains a condensed and well arranged summary of all the facts in regard to the subject on which it treats. To every cultivator of the soil, from the proprietor of a pot of mignionette to the planter of a sugar estate, it is a subject of vast interest. We could enter upon the topic con amore, but that its nature renders it unfit fur extended notice in our columns. The publishers of this pamphlet have done a great service to the American public in importing from England every work on the cultivation of the soil, which has been published in that country. Among their collection of agricultural and horticultural books, are some of the most costly and elegantly illustrated works which have issued from the British press. They have done much towards rendering agriculture a favorite pursuit among liberal minds, by showing that it is not only the most useful of the Arts, for an Art it is, or nothing, but one of the most elegant.