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coloured copies are, for all useful purposes, quite as good as if 

 they had been wholly coloured ; and, considering that they are 

 only Is. a number, we strongly recommend the work to all who 

 are desirous of having a thorough knowledge of the species of 

 British plants. 



Baxter's British Flowering Plants has reached No. 37. ; and 

 this work, also, is a model of its kind. To those who cannot 

 afford to purchase Sowerby's English Species, we confidently 

 recommend Baxter's British Genera. The plates are equal in 

 excellence to any that have been published ; and the letterpress 

 is, to our taste, far superior to that of most British floras. The 

 price is only 6d. a number for the plain copies, or \s. for the 

 coloured ones ; and the work will be completed in two volumes. 



We consider it a duty to recommend these two works strongly 

 to public notice, as being of first-rate excellence, and as cheap 

 as they possibly can be afforded to be done well. We should 

 be sorry to see them injured in sale by publications which have 

 really no other merit than their cheapness ; but such is the 

 charm of that quality in the present day, that for a while it will 

 sell anything. Only real excellence, however, will stand the 

 test of time, and in this respect Sowerby and Baxter have no- 

 thing to fear. 



A Catalogue of British Floisoering Plants and FernSi included 

 in Dr. Hooker's British Flora^ third edition, ]835, has been 

 printed and published by G. Francis, 35. Great Prescot Street, 

 and is sold at a very moderate price, in order to facilitate botani- 

 cal correspondence ; as an index to herbariums, &c. 



Sinclair, James: A History and Description of the different 

 Varieties of the Georgina, or Dahlia, now in cultivation in 

 the British Gardens ; illustrated with coloured Figures of all 

 the choicest Sorts. No. I., for September. 4to. 35. 6d. 

 London, 1835. 



We shall let the author speak for himself, and only observe, 

 respecting his work, that the four drawings by which it is illus- 

 trated appear very well drawn from nature by Alfred Chandler, 

 and transferred to stone by Mr. Sinclair. The colouring is also 

 good, and we sincerely wish the work the success we think it so 

 well deserves. 



" The object of the following work is to bring into notice' all the choice and 

 leading varieties of the Georgina, or Dahlia, now in cultivation. Such has 

 been the wonderful increase of this beautiful tribe of plants, that there are 

 now among the London florists, nurserymen, and amateurs, upwards of six 

 hundred distinct varieties of double dahlias, the colours of which are of the 

 richest possible hue, and of an endless variety ; yet there has never been any 

 work wholly devoted to the DahHa. We therefore undertake the following 

 work from the consideration that a flower so extremely beautiful in itself, and 



