December 7, 1892.] 



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Foreign Correspondence. 



London Letter. 



A Handbook of Iride^. — This is the fourth of the valu- 

 able series of handbooks prepared by Mr. Baker, of Kew, 

 and published in the last four years. No botanist of mod- 

 ern times has contributed more to what may be termed 



garden botan)'- than Mr. Baker, who has always shown a 

 warm sympathy with and interest in horticulture, espe- 

 cially in its relations to systematic botany. 



Since Herbert published his great work, AmaryllidacecB, 

 we have not had any book of more value to horticulturists 

 than Mr. Baker's Handbook of Atnaryllidece, published in 

 1888. In the following year came a similar work devoted 



