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salts, snuff, dentifrices, cosmetics, perfumed soap, &c., to 
which is added an appendix on preparing artificial fruit 
essences, &c. 
1881. Hope, Francis J., “ Notes and Thoughts on Gardens and 
Woodlands,” written chiefly for amateurs. 8vo. London : 
Macmillan. A charmingly fresh and practical book, containing 
articles on “ Sweet-scented Greenhouse Plants,” “ Flowers for 
the Poor and the Sick,” and a remarkable one on “ Flowers 
for the Blind.” It is a work not sufficiently known. 
1881. Books on Medicinal Plants. See Day don Jackson’s 
“ Guide to the Literature of Botany,” p. 199 et seq. 
1883. Grindon, Leo H., “ The Shakespere Flora.” Manchester : 
Palmer & Howe. London : Simpkin & Marshall. 8vo. A 
very interesting book. See page 201 for chapter on “ Odori¬ 
ferous and Medicinal Herbs,” &c. 
1885.- “ Bible Flowers and Folklore.” London: Hodder & 
Stoughton, 8vo., is another very interesting little work on the 
fragrant vegetation of the Scriptures. 
1885. Gilman, Arthur, M.A., “Borne: Story of the Nation” 
Series, p. 18. London: T. Fisher Unwin. “On April 21, 
758 b.c., we are told the shepherds began to build 
the city of Borne, and a feast of purification was begun. 
Towards evening the flocks and herds were fed and the stables 
sprinkled with water from laurel brooms, sulphur incense, 
rosemary, and fir-wood were burned, and the smoke was made 
to pass through the stalls to purify them, and even the flocks 
themselves were made to pass through the same cleansing 
fumes.” 
1889. Boulger, G.S., F.L.S., “ The Uses of Plants : a Manual of 
Economic Botany.” London : Boper & Drowley. 
1889. Lindley & Moore, “ The Treasury of Botany: a 
Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom.” This cheap 
and handy work is almost indispensable to gardeners, and 
ought to be better known. 2 vols. London : Longmans, 
Green & Co. 
1890. Jackson, John B., A.L.S., “ Commercial Botany of the 
Nineteenth Century.” London : Cassell & Co. 
1892. Leonard & Christy, “Dictionary of Materia Medica and 
Therapeutics.” London: Balliere, Tindall & Cox, King 
William Street, Strand, W.C. 
