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RUSTIC ABOEFMENTS, 



POK 



HOMES OF TASTE. 



And Recreations for Town Folk in the Study and Imitation of Nature. 



Marine Aquarium. 

 Fresh-water Aquarium. 

 Garden Aquarium. 

 Wardian Case. 

 Fern Case. 

 Illuminated Trees. 



COMPRISING 



Eockery. 



Fernery. 



Garden Water Scenery. 



Aviary, or Bird-House. 



Apiary, or Bee-House. 



Summer Houses. 



Garden Seats. 

 Trellis Work. 

 Rustic Baskets. 

 Vases and Miscellaneous Gar- 

 den Ornaments. 



BY SHIRLEY HIBBERD, 



Author of "The Town Garden." 



LONDON: GROOMBRIDGE AND SONS, PATERNOSTER ROW. 



TO ENTOMOLOGISTS. 



Mr. Foxcroft begs to return his sincere thanks to the Trustees of the 

 British Museum, the Nobility, Gentry, and Clergymen, and also, particularly 

 to the Members of the Entomological Society, for the patronage he has 

 received for a number of years, and takes the liberty of informing them 

 and others, that he intends rnaking another journey into Scotland, for the 

 purpose of collecting Insects during the Summer of 1856, from the 15th. 

 of March, to [the beginning of July, He purposes spending the rest of 

 the season in "Wales and parts of England to the end of October, making the 

 season seven months ancl a half. 



Mr. Eoxcroft, to enable him to carry out this plan, wishes to raise a 

 sufficient sum by Subscriptions of £1. 3s. each Subscriber, who shall be 

 entitled to two specimens of the order he particularly wishes to obtain; 

 the whole of the Insects collected to be shared in November, on Mr. E.'s 

 return. The boxes in which the Insects are delivered to the Subscriber, 

 to be his property. 



Mr. F. hopes by visiting different localities to take many rare and new 

 species, thus affording an excellent opportunity to Gentlemen of obtaining 

 desirables to their collections. 



Subscribers are respectfully requested to send their Subscriptions from 

 the 1st. of Januaiy to the 1st. of March; if by Post Office Order, to be 

 made paj'able at 210, Oxford Street, London, and no one to be considered 

 a Subscriber until ho has paid his Subscription of £1. 3s. Any person 

 subscribing £2. 4s. will be entitled to specimens of all the Orders of Insects 

 Avhich may be captured. Subscribers of £1. 3s. to receive two specimens 

 of all the species captured of such order as ho may subscribe for. Persons 

 sending their ov»'n box, Subscription will be £1. Is., or £2. 2s. if for 

 both Orders. 



%* James Foxcroft has always a great variety of British Insects on Sale. 



All kinds of Collecting and vStore Boxes, Cabinets, etc., all kinds of 

 Breeding Cages, Cabinets for Shells, Fossils, etc., made to order on the 

 lowest terms. 



P.S. — Persons subscribing for Coleoptera will have no Lepidoptera; those 

 that subscribe for Lepidoptera will have no Coleoptera. 



3, UNION YARD, OXFORD STREET, LONDON. 



