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A NATUEAL HISTOET OF BEITISH GEASSES. 
By E. J. Lowe, Esa., E.li.S., E.R.A.S., &c. Illustrated with 74 fluely- 
coloured Plates. In Oue 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 are useful and lucrative in husbandry, and teaching 
them the varied soils and positions upon which they thrive, and explaininir their 
qualities and the several uses to which they are applied in many branches of 
manufacture and industry. There is much interesting matter also in this volume 
appertaining to the ancient customs and superstitions connected with the subject, 
which the author brings before his reader in a forcible rather than in a prolix 
style. 
‘It is very faithful, and marvellously cheap, considering the beautiful manner in which it is 
produced.’ — Literary Record. 
MAUND’S BOTANIC GAEDEN. 
Consisting of highly-finished Figures of Hardy Ornamental Flowering 
Plants Cultivated in Great Britain, with their Vames, Orders, History, 
Qualities, Culture, and Physiological Observations. By B. Maund, F.L.s! 
New Edition, edited by James C. NrvEif, Curator of the Botanic Gardens, 
Hull. With 250 Coloured Plates, giving 1247 figures. In Six Volumes, 
super-royal 8vo., £12 12s. ’ 
BEITISH SEA-WEEDS. 
Drawn from Professor Harvey’s ‘Phycologia Britannica.’ With Descriptions, 
an Amateur’s Synopsis, Rules for Laying on Sea-weeds, an Order for 
Arranging them in the Herbarium, and an Appendix of New Species. By 
Mrs. Ali’bed Gaity. Illustrated with 80 coloured Plates, containing 384 
figures. In Two Volumes, super-royal 8vo,, price £2 10s. 
‘Those who are acquainted with Mra. Catty’s “Parablea from Katnrc,” and especially with 
her delightful Parable about “Red Snow,” need not be told that the litcravy part has been 
ably executed by a competent and loving obseiwer. In her present work she has endeavoured 
and we think moat sncoessfully, to tranaliite the terms and iihrases of science into the language 
of amatenra. Mrs. (latty’a familiarity with the plants themselves has enabled her to do this 
oflico withoixt fcUling into tho errora to ■which a mere compiler in seiiaratiug from tho beaten 
tnick would be liable.’ — Gardemrs^ Chronicle, 
ALPINE PLANTS. 
Descriptions and 103 accurately-coloured Figures (drawn and engraved ex- 
pressly for this Work) of some of the most striking and heantiful of the 
Alpine Flowers. Edited by David Wooster, joint editor of the latest 
editions of Loudon’s ‘ Encyclopmdias of Gardening and Plants,’ ‘Hortus 
Britanuious,’ &o. In One Volume, super-royal 8vo., price £1 6s. 
‘The manner in wl.icli “Alpine Plants” is produced is creditable alike to author and artist 
The literary portion is not the mere dry botanical descriptions often found in snob works hut 
a popular description of the plant, instructions as to its culture and treatment, with anv in- 
teresting information in oonniixion with it that can be obtained. . . . We heartiiv commend 
this work to all lovers of &oviem.'—Jonrnal of Uorlicnlture. ^ 
.‘Not least among the illustrated Cliristmaa books should be reckoned this interesting work 
with its beautifully coloui'ed specimens.’ — Saturday Reeieio. 
‘The letterpress fa full, no doubt, of the most accurate botanical learning, but what we have to 
speak of more particularly are the illustrations, and these strike ns as among the beat specimens of 
wood-block prmtmg. There is about them none of that plastered gaudiness, that thick and stickv 
style in wlucli too orten the wood-engraver endeavours to paint the lily. A crocus seems iust to 
have thrust itself through the brown soil which tho thaw has softened.’— Times. 
