CULTIVATED PLANTS: 



THEIR PROPAGATION AND IMPROVEMENT. 



Including Natural and Artificial Hybridisation, Raising from Seed, Cuttings, and 



Layers, Grafting and Budding, as applied to the Families and 



Genera in Cultivation. 



BY F. W. BURBIDGE, 



Author of ' Cool Orchids, and how to Grow Them.' 



With 191 Engravings. Crown Svo, pp. 630, 12s. 6d. 



"A book full of information." Field. 



"The knowledge of the whole horticultural world has been carefully gleaned to 

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 vation of plants." Westminster Review. 



" The amateur and the practical gardener will here at once learn the best methods 

 for actual work among their plants,. and receive hints for further original develop- 

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"We cannot, therefore, too earnestly commend the book to the attention of all 

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DOMESTIC FLOKICULTUKE, 



WINDOW-GARDENING, AND FLORAL DECORATIONS. 



BEING DIRECTIONS FOR THE PROPAGATION, CULTURE, AND ARRANGEMENT 

 OF PLANTS AND FLOWERS AS DOMESTIC ORNAMENTS. 



BY F. W. BURBIDGE. 



New Edition, Revised and Enlarged. 

 With upwards of 200 Illustrations on Wood. Crown Svo, 7s. 6d. 



" A charmingly illustrated vade-mecum on Window-Gardening, Floral Decoration, 

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 and balcony gardening, on a large or small scale, for bouquet or wreath making, for 

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 Mr Burbidge places intelligibly within their reach. ... An admirable com- 

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A MANUAL OE BOTANY, 



ANATOMICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL. FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS. 

 BY ROBERT BROWN, M.A., PH.D., F.R.G.S. 



Crown Svo, with numerous Illustrations. 12s. 6d. 



" We have no hesitation in recommending this volume to our readers as being the 

 best and most reliable of the many works on botany yet issued. . . . His manual 

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