PROSPECTUS. 
a New and Revised Edition in the popular form of Thirty-six Weekly 
Parts at One Shilling each, net. This popular method of issue will, 
it is hoped, place it within the reach of many lovers of Wild Flowers 
who have hitherto been unable to afford such an exhaustive work. 
Pratt’s Flowering Plants of Great Britain does not proceed 
upon the lines of picking out all the showy flowers and ignoring those of a 
less assertive character. These unpretentious plants have many interesting 
points in their.structure and economy; and here they will be found to 
have been accorded a place ungrudgingly, the object being to render the 
work complete as well as attractive. Moreover, it is in respect of such 
plants that the ordinary popular botanical work fails, for in the discrimina- 
tion of these the tyro most needs assistance. 
The publishers have placed this new edition under the able supervision 
of Mr. Edward Step, who is already well known to the flower-loving 
public as the author of ‘‘ Wayside and Woodland Blossoms’ and 
“Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse.’’ The revision has 
throughout been carried out in entire harmony with the spirit of the 
author, and Mr. Step has made it his especial care to draw attention to 
features of interest in the life-histories of our flowers, about which, thanks 
to the patience and research of modern naturalists, much new material 
has accrued since the previous revision. 
The text will consist of about 1,100 pages of printed matter, and has 
been entirely reset in a new and larger type. A complete index is given 
with each of the four volumes, and full general index of both English and 
Latin names is given with the final volume. 
The 315 beautiful coloured plates give representations in the 
natural tints of no less than 1,525 species, 
Several of the plates are entirely new, and no expense has been spared 
with those reprinted to make them as correct as possible, each proof 
having been personally supervised by the editor. The publishers cannot 
but feel that both printer and editor have been eminently successful, 
especially in that most conspicuous merit of accuracy in detail and colour. 
Four full-page diagrams are also given, showing at a glance the technical 
terms generally used in the description of the various portions of the plant 
and the typical forms of Root, Leaves, Flowers and Fruit, and these will 
be found invaluable to the student of botany. ; 
. Frederick Warne & Co. have much pleasure in announcing that 
art I. will be ready on May 31, and succeeding Parts will be issued each 
: — Part I. will contain 32 pp., four Plain Plates and 10 Coloured 
Plates. 
