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A NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH GRASSES. 
By E. J. Lowe, Esq., F.I; S., F.It.A.s., &c. Illustrated with 74 finely- 
coloured Plates. In One Volume, super-royal 8vo., price £1 Is. 
This is a work not only valuable to the botanical student for its pictorial 
accuracy, but of use also to the landed proprietor and the farmer, pointing out 
to them those grasses which aiv useful and lucrative in husbandry, and teaching 
them the varied soils and positions upon which they thrive, and explaining their 
qualities and the several uses to which they are applied in many branches of 
manufacture and industry. There is much interesting matter also iu this volume 
appertaining to the ancient customs and superstitions connected with the subject, 
which the author brings before his r ader in a forcib] i rather than in a prolix 
style. 
'It is very faithful, and marvellously cheap, considering the beautiful manner in which it is 
produced. 1 - bit* rary Record. 
MAUND'S BOTANIC GARDEN. 
Consisting of highly-finished Figures of Hardy Ornamental Flowering 
Plants Cultivated in Great Britain, with their Names, Orders, History, 
Qualities, Culture, and Physiological Observations. By B. Matjnd, F.L.S. 
New Edition, edited by James C Xivkx, Curator of the Botanic Gardens, 
Hull. With 250 Coloured Plates, giving 1247 figures In Six Volumes, 
super-royal 8vo., i'12 12s. 
BRITISH SEA-WEEDS. 
Drawn from Professor Harvey's ' Phycologia Britannica.' With Descriptions, 
an Amateur's Synopsis, Utiles for Laying on Sea-weeds, an Order for 
Arranging them in the Herbarium, and an Appendix of New Species. By 
Mrs. Au'Ki'n Oaiiy. Illustrated with 80 coloured Plates, containing 384 
figures. In Two Volumes, super-royal 8vo.. price £2 10s. 
'Those who are acquainted with .Mrs. flatty's "Parables from Nature," and especially with 
her delightful Parable about ■■lied Snow," need not be told that the literary part has been 
ably executed by a competent and loving observer. In her present work Bhe has endeavoured, 
and we think mosl successfully, to translate the terms and phrases of science into the language 
of amateurs. Mis. flatty's familiarity with the plants themselves lias enabled her to do this 
office without falling into the errors to which a mere compiler in separating from the beaten 
track would be liable.'— Gardt ners' Chronicle. 
ALPINE PLANTS. 
Descriptions and lo.'l accurately-coloured Figures (drawn and engraved ex- 
pressly for this Work) of some of the most striking and beautiful of the 
Alpine Flowers. Kdited by David Wooster, joint editor of the latest 
editions of Loudon's • Encyclopaedias oi Gardening and Plants,' 'Hortus 
Britannicus,' &c. In One Volume, super-royal 8vo., price L' 1 5s. 
'The manner in which "Alpine Plants" is produced is creditable alike to author and artist. 
The literary portion is not the mere dry botanical descriptions often found in such works, but 
a popular descripti t the plant, Instructions as to its culture and treatment, with any in- 
teresting information in connexion with it thai can be obtained. . . We heartily commend 
this work to all lovers of Bowers.' Journal of Horticulture. 
'Not leasi ■<■• the illustrated Christmas books should be reckoned this interesting work 
with its beautifully coloured specimens.' — Saturday Review. 
'The letterpress is full, no doubt, of the mosl accurate botanical learning, but what we have to 
speak of more particularly are the illustrations, and these Btrike ns as among the besl specimens of 
wood-block printing. There is about them none of thai plastered gaudineas, thai th ci and Bticky 
style in which too often the wood-engraver endeavout to painl the lily. A crocus seems jusl to 
have thrust itself through the brown Boil which the thaw has Boftened.' Times. 
