TO 
GEORGE MAW, ESQ, F.LS, F.GS., é&o. 
OF BENTHALL HALL, BROSELEY. 
My vear Mav, 
Allow me to dedicate to you this volume of the “ Boranicat 
Magazine,” as a tribute to the value of your exertions in intro- 
ducing hardy herbaceous plants into English gardens. No one of late 
years, or perhaps ever, has collected with his own hands so many of 
these for transmission to England, cultivated them with more suc- 
cess, or distributed them with more liberality—as the pages of this 
work to some small extent testify. 
Allow me also in this dedication to refer to that delightful exeur- 
sion to the coasts of Marocco and the Greater Atlas, that we made 
in company with our friend Mr, Ball, and which resulted in the intro- 
duction of so many interesting plants not hitherto known to English 
gardens. 
Believe me, 
Most sincerely yours, 
JOS. D. HOOKER. 
RoyaLt GARDENS, Kew, 
Dec. 1, 1874. 
