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A NATUEAL HISTORY OP BRITISH GRASSES. 
By E. J. Lowe, Esq., E.E.S., E.ll.A.S., &o. Illustrated with 74 finely- 
coloured Plates. In One Volume, super-royal 8to., 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 gi’asses which arc 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 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 veiy faithful, and marvellously cheap, considering the beautiful manner in which it is 
produced .’ — Literary Recm-d. 
MAUND’S BOTANIC GARDEN. 
Consisting of highly-finished Eigures of Hardy Ornamental Elowering 
Plants Cultivated in Great Britain, with their Hames, Orders, History, 
Qualities, Culture, and Phy.siological Observations. By B. Matjud, E.L.S. 
Hew Edition, edited by .Tames C. Hivejt, Curator of the Botanic Gardens, 
Hull. With 250 Coloured Plates, giving 1247 figures. In Six Volumes, 
super-royal 8vo., £12 12s. 
BRITISH 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 Hew Species. By 
Mrs. AiEfiED Gattt. Illustrated with 80 coloured Plates, containing 384 
figures. In Two Volumes, super-royal 8vo., price £2 lOs. 
‘Those who are acquriiDted with TVtrs. Gatty’s “Parables from and especially with 
her delightful Parable about “Red Snow/' need not be told that the literary part has been 
ably executed by a ci>mpetent and loving observer. In her present work she has endeavoured, 
and we think iriost suci^essfully, to translate the terms and phrases of science into the language 
of amateurs. Mrs, Gatty’a familiarity with the plants themselves has enabled her to do this 
office without falling into the errors to which a mere compiler iu separating from the beaten 
track would be liable.’ — Gardeners' Chronicle, 
ALPINE PLANTS. 
Doseriptions and 103 accurately-coloured Eigures (drawn and engraved ex- 
pressly for this Work) of some of the most striking and beautiful of the 
Alpine Elowers. Edited by David Wooster, joint editor of the latest 
editions of Loudon’s ‘ Encyclopa’dias of Gardening and Plants,’ ‘Hortus 
Britaiiiiious,’ &e. In One Volume, supor-royal 8vo., price £1 5s. 
‘The manner in which “Alpine Plante” is pi-oduced is creditahle alike to author and artist. 
The literaiT portion is not the mere dry botanical descriptions often found in such works, but 
a popular description of the plant, instructions a-s to its culture and treatment, with any iu- 
terestiug information in connexion witli it that can be obtaiued. . . . We heartily commend 
this work to all lovers of flowers.’— ./ omckuI of Jlurtimltm-e. 
‘Not least among 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 most accurate botanical learning, but what we have to 
speak of more partioul.'iriy are the illustrations, and these strike us as among the best specimens of 
wood-block printing. There is about them none of that plastered gaiicliness, that thick and sticky 
style in which too often the wood-engraver endeavours to paint the lily. A crocus seems just to 
have thrust itself through the brown aoU which the thaw has softened.’— ITtMew, 
