CULTIVATED PLANTS: 



THEIR PROPAGATION AND IMPROVEMENT. 



Including Natural and Artificial Hybridisation, Raising from Seed, Cuttings, and 



Layers, Grafting and Budding, as applied to the Families and 



Genera in Cultivation. 



By F. W. BURBIDGE, 



Author of ' Cool Orchids, and how to Grow Them.' 



With 191 Engravings. Crown 8vo, pp. 630, 12s. 6d. 



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DOMESTIC FLOEICULTUKE, 



■WINDOW-GABDENING, AND FLOHAL DECORATIONS. 



Being Directions for the Propagation, Culture, and Arrangement 

 OF Plants and Flowers as Domestic Ornaments. 



By F. W. BURBIDGE. 



New Edition, Revised and Enlarged. 

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A MANUAL OF BOTANY, 



ANATOMICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL. For the Use of Students. 



By ROBERT BROWN, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.G.S. 



Crown Svo, with numerous Illustrations. 12s. 6d. 



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