To 

 GEORGE NICHOLSON, ESQ., F.L.S., 



Late Curator of the Boyal Gardens, Kew. 



Dear Mr. Nicholson, 



It gives me great pleasure to dedicate to you a volume 

 (CXXIXth) of the Botanical Magazine, a work in the prosecution of 

 which you for so many years took an active part, especially in 

 selecting for illustration in its pages subjects of botanical interest 

 from amongst the treasures under your supervision in the Royal 

 Gardens. 



I would further wish you to regard it as a memorial of our 

 official co-operation in the management of those Gardens for 

 upwards of twelve years, a period to which I look back with 

 unalloyed pleasure; and also as a tribute to the high value of 

 your special labours in dendrology, and as the author of the 

 Dictionary of Gardening. 



Believe me, 



Very sincerely yours, 



Jos. D. HOOKER. 

 The Camp, Sunninqdale, 



December 1st, 1903. 



