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intended they should be coloured and issued in that form by the 
publisher.” Certainly old copies are often coloured, but, as he 
says, ‘‘the colour is often put on sree: and the form is 
obscured.” As his frontispiece Mr. Hatton reproduces four goo: 
examples from a coloured copy of Bock’s ° Kreider Buch (1546) ; it 
is interesting to note that the figure of the Peach contains leafless 
flowering and fully-leaved fruiting branches on the same tree, on 
the principle already referred to. 
the reproductions of Fuchs’s —— are to my mind 
the most beautiful designs in the book, there are many others of 
nearly if not quite equal excellence. Such are tise from Matthiolus 
(1565) from among the larger, and from Camerarius and Gerar 
s in ppy 
appendix the remarkably bold figures by Egenholf ‘(cire. 1550) 
and the etchings from ei s soos et (1604). Many other 
books, all good in their wa laid under contribution, the 
latest (and by far ne poorest) hang Lindley’s Vegetable Kingdom 
(1845), the blocks which ‘ were done by a process called 
glyphography ”’ ; pte are by ‘the compiler,’ as Mr. Hatton 
Pflanzenfamilien, ee mentioned. The earlier or is occupie 
by six eset dealing sie, wage 4 sig the old herbals, the use 
of p n design, an floral ornament, considerations 
governi co the use of Sisnta | in design, and the general form and 
— of plants. Each subject is treated in a manner at 
once cle 
a very good index. When it is added that the book is excellently 
well printed on good paper and sapacsced bound, it will have been 
made clear that the volume is in every way a most satisfactory 
Seren appealing alike to the artist and the student of 
ee JAMES BRITTEN. 
_—— of, Aes Botanical Exchange Club for 1908: by the Editor 
istributor, W. Bex, Esq., Knighton Road, Leicester. 
ee: wrapper, pp. 329-466. Oxford: James Parker & Son. 
1909. Price 2s. 6d. 
Tue Report of the Exchange Club for 1908, issued towards 
= end of last year, is more bulky than its predecessors and 
d at ti 
dictory, matter; those who wish for examples of the differences 
of opinion which may prevail among experts will always find 
