The Genus Iris. By William Rickatson Dykes. With 

 forty-seven coloured drawings by- F. H. Round, one 

 coloured plate of seeds by Miss R. M. Cardew a7id thirty 

 line draivings by C. W. Johnson. 



Demy Folio, pp. viii + 246. With 48 coloured plates and 30 line drawings. 



Bound in Ro.xburgh — dark green leather back and green cloth sides — with 



lettering in gold and gilt top. Price ^6. 6^. od. net. 



EXTRACTS FROM PRESS NOTICES 



Times. — Mr Dykes has succeeded Sir Michael Foster as the chief authority 

 on the iris ; and, like Foster, he has not been content with a merely 

 botanical knowledge of it Besides examining the herbarium collec- 

 tions at Kew, Berlin, Vienna and other places, he has grown in his own 

 garden and, whenever possible, has raised from seed more species, 

 probably, than any one else in England, and perhaps than any one else 



in the world This book must be the basis of all future study of the 



subject for it is the result of knowledge both practical and theoretical, 

 and in that combination unique. The coloured drawings by Mr Round 

 are far more artistic in their simple accuracy than most modern drawings 

 of the same kind. The work does credit to the publishers as well as to 



the author and artist [and] is remarkable among other works of the 



same kind for its very precise and valuable cultural directions. Mr Dykes 

 gives precise directions for the raising of Irises from seed, and his chapter 

 on the suiiject is one of the most valuable parts of a valuable book. 



Westminster Gazette. — It may be said at once that they [the publishers] have 

 amply merited the thanks of every horticulturist and botanist by the very 

 handsome style in which the vi'ork has been reproduced as regards text, 



as well as illustration Mr Round, the illustrator of the book, has in 



the treatment of the flowers come up to the task, and the colour-process 

 employed has rendered his beautifully delicate work with photographic 



faithfulness The text is literally packed with information for the 



botanist and for the grower of irises. Neither will be able to do without it. 



Athenaeum. — Tb.is monumental work has a special interest, for it is not 



exactly a botanist's monograph but rather a gardener's classification, 



made, however, with strict regard to botanical usage Mr Round's 



coloured drawings form a conspicuous feature of this magnificent volume. 



We congratulate the Camliridge Press on the publication of this 



important contribution to garden botany, and on the general production 

 of the volume. 



Gardeners' Chronicle. — The author has for years been a keen collector and 

 successful grower of Irises. In this he has taken up and worthily 

 continued the late Sir Michael Foster's work. The result of it is 



impressed almost on every page of the book Forty-eight folio 



colour-plates, for the most part of exquisite execution in draughts- 

 manship and print, are no mean addition to a monograph of a single 



genus The drawing and colouring of the flowers could hardly be 



surpassed in delicacy, artistic finish, and faithfulness. 



\A special prospectus of this hook, together with a specimen 

 coloured plate, ivill be forivarded on applicatio>i\ 



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