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BEAUTIFUL-LEAVED PLANTS. 
Describing the most beautiful-leaved Plants in cultivation in this country. 
By E. J. Lowz, Ese., F.R.S., F.R.A.S., assisted by W. Howarn, F.H.S. 
Illustrated with 60 coloured Illustrations. In One Volume, super-royal 
8vo., price £1 ls. 
‘In this volume we have a description of a large number of stove, conservatory, and garden 
apa cultivated in this country, of which the leaves rather than the flowers are objects of interest. 
e exquisite and delicate forms of many ornamental plants common to the hothouses and green- 
houses of the wealthy are here depicted, with wonderful fidelity, in a series of beautiful 
illustrations in the natural colour of the plants.’.—7he Bookseller. 
NEW AND RARE BEAUTIFUL-LEAVED PLANTS. 
By Surerey Hisserp, F.R.H.S. Llustrated with 54 coloured Engrayings. 
In One Volume, super-royal 8vo., price £1 5s. 
‘A bit of information as to the pictures may be acceptable. First, observe the tinting of the 
leaves, and the groundwork of such a subject as Solanum marginatum as a sample of the whole. 
Then accept the information that these pictures are not chromo-lithographs, not coloured by hand; 
they are all, from first to last, wood engravings, and we imagine, but cannot of course express any 
opinion on the subject, that as works of art, representative of the present state of an important 
industry, they are not simply interesting, but remarkable.’—Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
OUR NATIVE FERNS AND THEIR VARIETIES. 
By E. J. Lowe, Ese., F.R.S., F.R.A.S., &e. Illustrated with 79 coloured 
Plates and 909 Wood Engrayings. In Two Volumes, royal 8vo., price £2 2s. 
The importance and value of this work may be inferred from the fact that it 
contains descriptions of 1294 varieties of British Ferns, with seventy-nine coloured 
plates of species and varieties. and 909 wood engravings. The descriptions are 
written in a popular manner, containing much interesting information. The localities 
are described, each synonym given, and a description of the proper method of 
cultivation. To show the extent and value of the illustrations it may be mentioned, 
that of Scolopendrium vulgare alone there are one hundred-and eighty-four varieties 
figured. 
NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH AND EXOTIC FERNS 
By E. J. Lows, Ese., F.R.S., F.R.A.S., &c. Illustrated with 479 finely- 
coloured Plates. In Eight Volumes, super-royal 8yvo., price £6 6s. 
‘A book which should contain ample means of studying and identifying the Exotic species 
accessible to persons of moderate means, has hitherto been a desideratum. This want the 
present work promises most hopefully to fill. It is admirably “got up;” the plates are care- 
fully and prettily executed; there is a neat illustrative woodcut at the head of each description, 
and the letterpress is full and practical, without being deficient in scientific accuracy. It is 
really the cheapest work for its excellence we have ever seen, and should be ‘in the handy 
of every gardener and every private person who cultivates these charming objects.”’’—Atheneum. 
A NATURAL HISTORY OF NEW AND RARE FERNS. 
Containing Species and Varieties not included in ‘Ferns, British and 
Exotic.’ By E. J. Low, Ese., F.R.S., F.R.A.S., &c. Illustrated with 
72 coloured Plates and numerous Woodcuts. In One Volume, super-royal 
8vo., price £1 1s. 
‘Although the ‘Natural History of British and Exotic Ferns” contains coloured illustrations 
of between five and six hundred species of Ferns cultivated in this country, still so many new 
ones have been introduced, that it has been deemed necessary to publish a separate volume. 
This work will be found to contain coloured plates or woodcut illustrations of one hundred 
and fifty-one new species, or new varieties of species that have been already figured in the 
preceding volumes.'—Preface, 
