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branch of this fascinating art, and on subjects 

 cognate to it, down to a date within living 

 memory, a link between the old and modern 

 schools, but with a clear leaning to a more 

 enlightened and intelligible system of classifi- 

 cation, and with a knowledge of the Genera 

 amplified by the latest discoveries at that 

 period. 



The late Mr. Henry Bohn, in his re- 

 cension of the Bibliographer s Manual, has 

 afforded practical evidence of the strong 

 personal interest which he felt in horticul- 

 ture and botany by the carefully-prepared 

 lists of the labours of the three Sowerbys, 

 and of one or two other authors, whom I 

 have presently to mention. Mr. Bohn 

 himself printed for private circulation a 

 descriptive catalogue of his own extensive 

 collection of Roses. 



George and John Lindley presented a 

 third example of a family which, during 

 successive generations, did its part in spread- 

 ing a correct knowledge of all the branches 

 of tree, plant, and vegetable culture, and in 

 improving the management of the orchard 



