Juse 1, 1895 
Nice, 1868, £3 6s.; E. Bossier a Voyage . dans 
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1839 hat rer 158.; Hooker's Flora Nove- 2dand- 
ora — ured plates, 1853, —— 5s 
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gí ; Hooker's Filices Erotice, or ch 
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with numerous beautiful coloured plater, 1850 to 
1867, £39; J. Forbes Royle, Tust rat ions of the 
Botany the Himalayan Mountains, two vole., 
THE 2 eee DE NERS’ 
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1858 to 1867, — 156% W. Curtiss Flora 
ondonensis, enlarged by Graves and Hooker, five 
vole., coloured plates, bound in green morocco extra, 
£30; 
Ss 
a fine copy, 1835, J. Elwes, Monograph oj 
the Genus Lilium, illustrated by 4 4 * H * 
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691 
this year has * fing. to the present date hit culti- 
vators #0 so cruelly ree" * their hopes 
to the ground * ri May 20 and 21 lest year. On 
ya we had about 15° of org This year, on 
the same dates and d 1 the week joast ended, we 
had veer | winds = low temperature, but little or 
no rost, oe ex d localities we 
observe, however, that the hail, and cutting, scathing 
ave severel 
ssc 
=] 
— 
+ —— have got a chill, and the effects. on Apples in 
33 cannot yet be determined. As, however, 
-otatos are n that 
— fruit blossoms remain soun 
are selling in 
we must not h 
we have atill ten days of fickle, treacherous May 
Exhibited at the Temple Show 
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Fiji Islands, 100 coloured plates by W. Fitch, 1865 
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New York, two vols., coloured plates, y, 1843, 
£3; R. Wight’s Icones Orientalis 
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. Booth’s Illustrations of the Genus Carex, 
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1819, El 13 158. Sertum Botanicum, Collection de 
Plantes remarqua 2 par leur utilité, leur elegance, 
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d Sibthorp’ 
botanical or 
HOME CORRESPONDENCE, 
May has 
THE WEATHER ANO THE 
ost beaten the re 
succeeding 
— other peor a few days, Nevertheless, May 
by Mr. C. Turner, Nurseryman, Slough, 
before us. eee 1 re hopes that the worst is over 
now we bay rubicon of the 20th without 
an absolutely silling rae Ano 
— is year, is that many * 
shrubs 
3 * 3 21—seem safe and sound 
xtreme changes and scathing blasts of last 
LLEA ROBUSTA. 3 . 
— — (62), as pleasing 0 
— 10 1 #0 rarely 
— p eee. to answer 
hem as briefly as possible. The fine plant in the 
or elegantissima, is also, T baler, Oo 
best — or variety for the clothing of walls, 
