6 NEW WORKS AND NEW EDITIONS 



WORKS RELATING TO AGRICULTURE— Continued. 



SIR HUMPHRY DAVY'S AGRICULTURAL CHE- 



MISTRY. With Notes by Dr. John Davy. 6th Edit. 8vo. with 10 Plates, 

 15s. cloth lettered. 



Contents. — Introduction — The General Powers of Matter which influence 

 Vegetation— The Oganization of Plants— Soils— Nature and Constitution of the 

 Atmosphere, and its Influence on Vegetables — Manures of Vegetable and Animal 

 Origin — Manures of Mineral Origin, or Fossil Manures — Improvement of 

 Lands by Burning — Experiments on the nutritive quaUties of different Grasses, &c. 

 "The only practical work on the subject."— Bell's Messenger. 



THE VEGETABLE CULTIVATOR; CONTAINING 



A PLAIN AND ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF ALL THE DIFFE- 

 RENT SPECIES AND VARIETIES OF CULINARY VEGETABLES, with 

 the most approved methods of Cultivating and Cooking them. By J. Rogers, 

 Author of "The Fruit Cultivator." Fcp. 8vo. 7s. cloth lettered. 



A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE CULTIVATION 



OF THE GRAPE VINE ON OPEN WALLS. By Clement Hoare. 



New Edition, with Additions, 8vo. 7s. 6d. cloth. 



BOTANICAL -WORKS, 



By SIR WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER, K.H. LL.D. 



Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow, fyc. 



THE BRITISH ELORA; COMPRISING THE 



FLOW^ERING PLANTS AND THE FERNS. 8vo. 4th Edition, with 

 Plates, containing 82 Figures, illustrative of the Grasses and Umbelliferous 

 Plants, 12s. ; or coloured, 16s. 



*^* In this edition all the newly-discovered Species are introduced. The 

 Linnsean arrangement is followed in the body of the work ; but in the Appendix 

 are given the Characters of all the Natural Orders, with a List of the Genera, 

 referring to the pages where they are described. 



Vol. II. Part 1, of the above (Cryptogamia), 8vo. 12s. — Vol. II. Part 2 

 (Fungi), completing the work, by Sir W. J. Hooker, and the Rev. M. J. 

 Berkeley. 8vo. 12s. 



MUSCOLOGIA BRITANNICA. CONTAINING THE 



MOSSES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, systematically arranged 

 and described ; with Plates. By Sir W. J. Hooker ; and T. Taylor, M.D. 

 F.L.S. &c. 2d Edition, Svo. enlarged, 31s. 6d. plain ; ^3. 3s. coloured. 



ICONES PLANTARUM; OR, FIGURES, AVITH BRIEF 



DESCRIPTIVE CHARACTERS AND REMARKS, OF NEW AND 

 RARE PLANTS, selected from the Author's Herbarium. 2 vols. Svo. with 

 200 Plates, £2. 16s. cloth lettered. 



Parts I. & II. of a Continuation (forming Vol. 3, price 28s. cloth lettered), 

 comprising .50 Plates and Descriptions, to be completed in 2 more Parts, 14s. each. 



" Notliiug can be more interestiiifr to a man of science than the plants represented in 

 these vohmies ; nothina: can be in better taste or more faithful than the figures; and it 

 is (lirticult to conceive how any thing can be clieaper."— Athek.-eum. 



