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late collection of Abyssinian plants from the territory of Agow, and we 

 may confidently say that they are* well worthy the attention of botanists. 

 The species are many of them new ; all are good specimens, and in ex- 

 cellent preservation ; they are named, and the special localities given, 

 and they are very reasonable as to price, Onr set reckons 210 species, 

 at the price of £2. 17^. Id. 



They are on sale, together with many other collections from various 

 parts of the world, at Mr. E. F. Hochstetter's, Esslingen, near Stutt- 

 gart. Some of those more recent collections are enumerated, with 

 their prices, at p. 284 of our present volume. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS 



HooKEK, Sir W. J.; Kew G-ardens, or a Popular Guide to the 

 Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew. Thirteenth Edition. Loudon, 

 1855. Longman and Co. 



Hookek, Sik W. J.; Museum of Economic Botany, or a Popular 

 Guide to the useful and remarkable Vegetable Products of the Museum 

 of the Royal Gardens of Kew. Second Edition. London, 1855; 

 Longman and Co. 



We have no intention of describing the contents of the two little 

 works here noticed : the object of the Author in preparing them is (to 

 use a familiar expression of the present day) to popularize Botany, 

 in the first in what concerns the living plants of the noble Gardens of 

 Kew, and in the second in what concerns the products of the vegetable 

 kingdom, as displayed in the Museum of the same Gardens ; with what 

 success some judgment may be formed from the fact, that the Keto 

 Garden Guide has, exclusive of spurious and piratical copies, gone- 

 through thirteen editions (each of 3000 copies), in the short space of 

 eight years. The Museum Guide had the first edition published last 

 year (1855), and the second edition was called for in June of the pre- 

 sent year. 



