Splendid Botanical and Gardening Works, 



IN THE PUESS, AND PUnLISIMNCJ, 



By JAMES RIDGWAY AND SONS. 



GARDENS & GROUNDS OF WOBURN ABBEY. 



Under the Patronage of His Grace the DUKE of BEDFORD, K.G, 

 Sfc. Sfc. 4'c. 



Handsoniely printed, in One Vol. Royal and Mediiim 8vo. iilustrated by 

 nearly Thirty ViEWSof the Gardens and Grounds, Plans, Elevations, 

 and Sections, of all the Forcing Houses, Greenliouses, &c. &c. 



HORTUS WOBURNENSIS; a Descriptive Cata- 



Lor.UE, comprising Generic and Specific Charaeter, Colour of the Flower, 

 Native Country, Year of Introdnction, Soil, and Mode of Propagation, 

 of npwards of SIX THOUSAND of the niost Ornamental, Exotic, and 

 Indigenous PLANTS, in the Collection at Woburn Abbey ; with an 

 Account of the Routine of Cultnre pursned in the Forcing Departnient 

 throughont tiie Year, a List of the Fruits cultivated ; including short 

 Treatises on the Management of the superior Fruits, Vegetables, &c. 



By JAMES FORBES, A.L.S. C.M. H.S. &c. 



Principal Gardener at Woburn Abbey. 



Medium 8io. 2Is. — Royal Proofs, 21. 2s. — Ditto, coloured, 21. 12s. Gd. 



The Grounds of this Establishment were laid out, and the Garden 

 IJiiildings designed by the most eminent LandscapeGardeners and Archi- 

 tects of the age, the late Mr. Repton, Sir Jeffery Wyatvillk, and 

 Mr. Atkinson. 



Tlic Forcing Honses are all newly erected, and Hcated by Hot Water, 

 on the niost approvtd princi|)le, Plans and Details ofwhich are given. 

 This principle combines tlie advantage of producing a genial steady lieat, 

 with a great saving of Fuel; whereby, also, the Houses niay be left, with 

 j)erfect safety, for full fifteen hours, without any additional Fuel, at even 

 28 degrecs of Frost, Fahrenheit. 



PROFESSOR LINDLEYS FLOWER-GARDEN, CONSERVA- 

 TORY, &c. 



In Monthly Numhers, ivith Eight Coloured Plates, is. 



The BOTANICAL REGISTER; or, Oniamental Flovver- 

 Garden and Shrubbery. Coiitinued by John Lindi.ey, Ph.D. F.R.S., 

 Professor of Botany in the University of London, &c. &c. 



Each Nnniber contains Eight finely coloured Portraits, (toequal Draw- 

 ings,) taken from Life, of the handsoinest P"lowering Plants and Shriibs 

 grown in the Public and Private Establishments of this Country, (which 

 Establishnients are specified,) accompanied by their History, Mode of 

 Treatment in Cultivation, Propagation, &c. 



No. VI. of Vol. VI., New Series, (or, of the Nineteenth Vohime of ihe 

 entire work,) was published on the Ist of August, 1833. 



The previoiis Volumes may behad in NHmbers, 4s. each, or in Volimies, 

 21. lOs. boards. 



" What we consider the most valuable feature of this work, and wliat 

 distinguishes it peculiarly in its class, is the judicious selection of its sub- 

 jects, and the coiistant introdnction of greenhouse and hardy flowers aud 

 shrubs, in preference to those which are to be preservcd only in the hot- 

 house." — Literary Gazette. 



" The Botanical Register, froiu containing niost or all of the new plants 

 introduced by the Horticultural Society, from the great care with which 



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