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THE FLORIST. 
London : “ Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener ” 
Office, 162 Fleet Street. Parts I. to VI., I 5 . each. 
The expensive nature of former works on British botany has 
proved a great hindrance to a more general knowledge of British 
plants than unfortunately exists amongst us ; we say unfortunately, 
for no science is really more popular, or deserves more to he en¬ 
couraged, as a delightful source of pure unalloyed pleasure and 
recreation, than collecting and studying the habits and forms of 
our native Flora. A few months back we had to notice in favour¬ 
able terms the completion of an abridgment of Sowerby’s Botany 
—British Wild Flowers, arranged in one vol.; the figures given 
were, however, necessarily small, and some of them difficult to 
identify by the tyro in botanical science. The present work is 
got up on a larger scale—in fact equal to the expensive work 
alluded to, and on a much more popular scale. The plates are 
life-like, botauically correct, and the colouring sufficient to convey 
a truthful character of the original; while the descriptive letter- 
press is divested as much as is possible of technical terms, and 
rendered as popular as such descriptions to be accurate can be 
made. Under the head of “history and uses,” the authors have 
given us valuable information on the uses, as well as much inte¬ 
resting matter on classic, as well as domestic plant lore. The 
work is published monthly, price I 5 ., each number containing Four 
Plates, with the accompanying letter-press. We most cordially 
recommend this cheap edition to all concerned in promoting a love 
and knowledge of British plants in their respective circles. 
TRADE LISTS. 
Charles Turners Catalogue of Fruit Trees, Roses, Coniferce, 
Hardy Trees, Shrubs, Climbing Plants, ^c. Royal Nur¬ 
series, Slough, and Salt Hill. Autumn, 1861, a/it/ Spring, 
1862. 
To speak of Mr. Turner’s establishment as the head-quarters of 
floricultural productions, would be superfluous ; but in addition 
the Slough Nurseries contain a very general as well as excellent 
selection of nursery stock, of which the present Catalogue enu¬ 
merates and describes the particulars o^ each. The Slough 
Nursery possesses a pure air, and fine soil for fruit trees and 
shrubs, and Mr. Turner’s good management, with the above ad¬ 
vantages, has made his stock second to none in quality and good 
condition for planting. 
William Paul’s Rose Catalogue. Cheshunt Nurseries and 
Waltham Cross, 1861-62. 
The name of William Paul and Roses are most fitly associated 
together, for there arc very few individuals wlio have done so 
much to make the Rose popular as Mr. W. Paul. We have 
