A NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH GRASSES. 
By E. J. Lowe, Esq., E.B.S., E.R.A.S., &e. Illustrated with 74 finely- 
coloured Plates. In One Volume, super- royal 8vo., price £l Is. 
This is a work not only Taluahle 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 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 very faithful, and marvellously cheap, considering the beautiful manner in which it is 
produced.’ — Litm'ary Bacord. 
MAUND’S BOTANIC GARDEN. 
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. Maitnd, F.L.S. 
Hew Edition, edited by James C. Hiveit, 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, Eules for Laying on Sea-weeds, an Order for 
Arranging them in the Herbailum, and an Appendix of Hew Species. By 
Mrs. Alebeb Gativ. Illustrated with 80 coloured Plates, containing 384 
figures. In Two Volumes, super-royal 8vo., pi-ice £2 10s. 
‘Those who are acquainted with Mrs. Gatty’s “Parables from Nature,” and especially with 
her delightful Pamble about “Red Snow/’ nend uot be told that the literai'y part has been 
ably executed by a competent and loving obsorver. In her present work she has endeavoured, 
and we thmk most Buccessfnjl}’’, to translate the terms autl phrases of science into the language 
of amateurs. Mrs. Gatty’s familiarity with the jilants themselves has enabled her to do this 
oificG without falling into the errors to which a mere comiiiler in separating from the beaten 
track would be liable,’ — Gardenei’s’ Chronicle, 
ALPINE PLANTS. 
Descriptions and 103 accurately-coloured Eigurcs (drawn and engraved ex- 
pressly for this Work) of some of the most striking and beautiful of the 
Alpiuo Flowers. Edited by David Woosteu, joint editor of the latest 
editions of Loudon’s ‘Encyclopoodias of Gardening and Plants,’ ‘Hortus 
Britannious,’ &c. In One Volume, super-royal 8vo., price £1 5s. 
‘The manner in which “Alpine Plants” is produced is oi-oditablo alike to author and artist. 
The litenaiy portion is uot the mere dry hotaiiioai descriptions often found in such works but 
a popular description of the plant, iustructions as to its culture and treatment, with any in- 
teresting information in oonirexion with it that can bo obtained. . . . We heartily commend 
this work to all lovers of ilowers.’— Jbaraaf of UoHimlture. 
‘Not least among the illustiuted Ohristmafl books should be reckoned this interesting work 
with its beautifully coloured sijecimena .’ — Baiurday Baniom. 
‘The letterpress is full, no doubt, of the most accurate botanical learning, but what we have to 
speak of more particularly are the illnstratious, and these strike us na among the best specimens of 
wood-block printing. There is about them none of that plastered gaudiness, 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 soil which the thaw has softened.’— Tfines, 
