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Part 37 signatures 82-85 June 8, 1898 

 " 38 " 86-88 Oct. 5, 1898 (containing 



title and indexes for text and plates). 



From this citation it appears that nearly one half of vol. i (pages 

 1-320) was issued in 1891, a year earlier than the date upon the title page. 



Voss. Vilmorin's blumengartnerei. The full title of this well-known 



work reads: " Vilmorin's Blumengartnerei; beschreibung, kultur und 

 verwendung des gesamten pflanzenmaterials f iir deutsche garten. Dritte, 

 neubearbeitete auflage unter mitwirkung von A. Siebert, herausgegeben 

 von A. Voss. Mit 1272 textabbildungen und 400 bunten blumenbildern 

 auf 100 farbendrucktafeln." 2 bde. Berlin. 1896. Bd. 1, pp. viii, 

 1264; bd. 2, pp. 244, 78. 



Though published as a third edition to "Vilmorin's Illustrierte blumen- 

 gartnerei, " it may be regarded as an entirely new work, having little in 

 common with the first and second editions except the title. The preface 

 in bd. 1 states that the task of editing a new edition of Vilmorin's cele- 

 brated "Blumengartnerei," of which two editions of many thousands 

 of copies have been distributed among gardeners and plant lovers, is an 

 extraordinarily difficult one, the more so as the publisher, Dr. Parey, 

 wishes to present more than a revision and a supplement. Instead of 

 the original alphabetical arrangement of botanical names he proposes 

 an arrangement by families and genera and an enlargement from the 

 entire plant material in German gardens. In order to do this the editor, 

 A. Voss, spent many months in practical study in the Frankfurt Palm- 

 garden, in Stuttgart, Berlin, etc., and after six years labor the work is 

 brought to a close. In regard to nomenclature the work is much more 

 thorough and exact than most works on the botany of cultivated plants; 

 the author, as a follower of O. Kuntze, has tried to apply consistently the 

 law of priority and therefore found it necessary to create a considerable 

 number of new names and new combinations, chiefly of varieties. To 

 fix the date of publication of these new names the statement is made in 

 the preface that bd. 1 was "im druck von neujahr 1894 bis August 1895." 

 To make the date of the appearance of the first part more specific, we find 

 in Gartenflora for April 1894, p. 223, that the first heft of the work which 

 has been in preparation for many years has at last appeared, and that the 

 entire work in 2 vols, will be issued in 50 lieferungen. Gartenflora also 

 adds that of the original work little remains, but the name and many 

 "cliches." While the original contained only plants growing in the open 

 air, the new work includes exotic and hot house plants. Botanische zeitung 

 for June 1, 1894, on page 176, states that lieferung 1 consists of 48 pages. 



On the reverse of the title-page of bd. 1 of the Arboretum copy is 

 written in pencil, "Published in 50 parts, one every two weeks. Pages 

 1-832 published in 1894; pp. 833-1264 in 1895." Though diligent search 

 has failed to reveal the source of this information it is believed to be 



