DEDICATION. 
This volume of the Boranican Macazine is dedicated 
to Mr. Wi1am Txompson, of Ipswich, to whose zeal 
in introducing, and intelligent skill in raising, hardy 
American plants, and especially those of the Western 
United States, European gardeners in general, and the 
BoranicaL Macazinz in particular, are indebted for many 
most interesting and ornamental novelties, 
By his faithful friend, 
JOSEPH D. HOOKER. 
RoyaL GarpEns, Kew, 
Dec. 1st, 1876. 
