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BEAUTIFUL-LEAVED PLANTS. 
Describing tbo most beautiful-loavcd Plants in cultivation in this country. 
By E. J. Loive, Esu., E.E.S., E.K.A.S., assisted by W. Howaeb, E.H.S. 
Illustrated with 60 coloured Illustrations. In One Volume, super-royal 
8vo., price £1 Is. 
‘In this volmno we have a description of a, large umiiber of conservatory, and garden 
plants cultivated in this country, of which the leaves rather than the flowers arc objects of mterest. 
tL exnniitc and delicate fomis of many ornamental plants common to the hothouses and green- 
honses of the wealthy are here depicted, w* fiddityi “ ^ of beautiful 
iUustrations in the natural colour of the plants, —r/w BookseUer. 
NEW AND RARE BEAUTIFUL-LEAVED PLANTS. 
By Shibley Hebbeiu), E.E.D.S. lUustratod with 54 coloured Engravings. 
In One Volume, super-royal 8vo., price £l 5s. 
‘A bit of information as to the pictures m.aybe acceptable. First, obseive the tinting of the 
leaves, and the gromidworh of such a subject as Solanum marnmitum as a siimp e of the whole. 
Then accept the information that these pictures are not chromo-lithographs, not coloured by hand; 
they are aU, from first to last, mooif Mgravim, od we imagine but cannot of coui'se express any 
opinion on the subject, that as works of art, representative of the present state of an important 
industry they are not simply interesting, but remarkable. —Gardners Chromch. 
OUR NATIVE PERNS AND THEIR VARIETIES. 
By E ,T Lowe, Esa., P.ll.S., E.E.A.S., &c. Illustrated with 79 coloured 
Blutes and 909 \Vood Engravings. In Two Volumes, royal 8vo., price £2 2s. 
The importance and value of this work may be inferred from the fact that it 
contains descriptions of 1294 varieties of British Ferns, with sevonty-mne coloured 
plates of species and varieties, and 909 wood engravings. Ihe descriptions are 
written in a popular manner, containing much interesting information, ihe localities 
are described, each synonym given, and a description of the proper method of 
cultivation. To show tlie extent and value of the illustrations it may be mentioned, 
that of Scolopendrium vulgarc alone there are one hundred and eighty-four varieties 
figured. 
NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH AND EXOTIC PERNS 
By E. I. Lown, Esa., F.E.S., F.E.A.S., &c. Illustrated with 479 finely 
coloured riates. In Eight Volumes, supor-royal 8vo., price £6 Cs. 
‘A book which should contain ample means of studying and identifying the Exotic species 
aocessibl7to persona of moderate meana, has hitherto been a desideratum. This want the 
present work promises most hopefully to fill. It is adnm-ably got up; the plates me c.ue- 
fully and prettily executed; there is a neat fflustratiye woodent at the head of each description, 
and the IrttorprL is full and practical, without bemg deficient m scientihe acem-aev It is 
really the oheape-fit ivork for its excellence we li.aye ever seen, and should bo n ti e hands 
of every gardenir and every private person who cultivates these charming objects. '-Athmmum 
A NATURAL HISTORY OP NEW AND RARE FERNS. 
Coutaining Species and Variotios not included in ‘Ferns, British and 
Exotic.’ By E. J. Lown, Esu., F.E.S., F.E.A.S., &c. Illustrated with 
72 coloured Plates and numerous "Woodcuts. In One Volume, super-royal 
8vo., price £1 Is. 
‘Although the “Natural History of British and Exotic Ferns” contains coloiued illustratiom- 
if between five and six Imndred species of Ferns cultivated in this countiy, still so many new 
ines have hceii introduced, that it has been deemed necessary to publish a separate volume. 
This work will be found to contain coloured plates or woodcut iUustrations of one hundred 
^Dd. fifty-one new species, or new varieties of species that have been already figured in tno 
preceding volumes.’ — Preface, 
