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salts, snuff, dentifrices, cosmetics, perfumed soap, &c, to 

 which is added an appendix on preparing artificial fruit 



essences, &c. 



1881. Hope, Francis J., " Notes and Thoughts on Gardens and 

 Woodlands," written chiefly for amateurs. 8vo. London : 

 Macmillan. A charmingly fresh and practical book, containing 

 articles on " Sweet-scented Greenhouse Plants," " Flowers for 

 the Poor and the Sick," and a remarkable one on " Flowers 

 for the Blind." It is a work not sufficiently known. 



1881. Books on Medicinal Plants. See Day don Jackson's 

 " Guide to the Literature of Botany," p. 199 et seq. 



1883. Grindon, Leo H., " The Shakespere Flora." Manchester : 

 Palmer £ Howe. London : Simpkin & Marshall. 8vo. A 

 very interesting book. See page 201 for chapter on " Odori- 

 ferous and Medicinal Herbs," &c. 



1885. " Bible Flowers and Folklore." London : Hodder & 

 Stoughton, 8vo., is another very interesting little work on the 

 fragrant vegetation of the Scriptures. 



1885. Gilman, Arthur, M.A., "Rome: Story of the Nation" 

 Series, p. 18. London: T. Fisher Unwin. "On April 21, 

 753 B.C., we are told the shepherds began to build 

 the city of Home, and a feast of purification was begun. 

 Towards evening the flocks and herds were fed and the stables 

 sprinkled with water from laurel brooms, sulphur incense, 

 rosemarv, and fir-wood were burned, and the smoke was made 

 to pass through the stalls to purify them, and even the flocks 

 themselves were made to pass through the same cleansing 

 fumes." 



1889. Boulger, G.S., F.L.S., " The Uses of Plants : a Manual of 

 Economic Botany." London : Roper & Drowley. 



1889. Lindley & Moore, " The Treasury of Botany : a 

 Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom." This cheap 

 and handy work is almost indispensable to gardeners, and 

 ought to be better known. 2 vols. London : Longmans, 

 Green & Co. 



1890. Jackson, John R., A.L.S., " Commercial Botany of the 

 Nineteenth Century." London : Cassell & Co. 



1892. Leonard & Christy, "Dictionary of Materia Medica and 

 Therapeutics." London : Balliere, Tindall & Cox, King 

 William Street, Strand, W.C. 



