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most sterling and beautiful of the Alpine flowers.” Various interesting particu- 
lars, respecting the subjects of the plates and their near allies, constitute the 
letterpress, while an introductory chapter enters more fully into the general 
PHiLUDlilsDKON PEKTUSL'M. 
details of culture. The book will form a choice addition to our garden literature, 
and its appearance is opportune, when the taste for herbaceous plants is reviving. 
In a little volume entitled Scripture and Nature (Hodder and Stoughton) 
we have rather a theological than a horticultural subject, and one, therefore, 
