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Page 19 - SOWERBY'S ENGLISH BOTANY: Containing a Description and Life-size coloured Drawing of every British Plant. Edited and brought up to the Present Standard of Scientific Knowledge by T. BOSWELL (formerly SYMB), LL.DFLS, &c. With Popular Descriptions of the Uses, History, and Traditions of each Plant, by Mrs. LANKESTEB, Author of " Wild Flowers Worth Notice," " The British Ferns,
Page 19 - Will be the most complete Flora of Great Britain ever brought out. This great work will find a place wherever botanical science is cultivated,' and the study of our native plants, with all their fascinating associations, held dear.
Page 18 - Directions showing which are the best adapted for the Hothouse, Greenhouse, Open Air Fernery, or Wardian Case. With an Index of Genera, Species, and Synonyms.
Page 19 - British plants ; which encumber these volumes with riches, the reader cannot help being struck with the beauty of many of the humblest flowering weeds we tread on with careless step. We .cannot dwell upon many of the individuals grouped in the splendid bouquet of flowers presented !n these pages, and it will be sufficient to state that the work Is pledged to contain a figure of every wild flower indigenous to these isles."— lima. " Will be the most complete Flora of Great Britain ever brought out....
Page 19 - English Botany,' when finished, will be exhaustive of the subject, and worthy of the branch of science It illustrates. , . . In turning over the charmingly executed handcoloured plates of British plants ^which encumber these volumes with riches, the reader cannot help being struck with the beauty of many of the humblest flowering weeds we tread on with careless step. We cannot...
Page 17 - NEWTON, JOSEPH, FRHS THE LANDSCAPE GARDENER : A Practical Guide to the Laying-Out, Planting, and Arrangement of Villa Gardens, Town Squares, and Open Spaces, from a Quarter of an Acre to Four Acres. For the use of Practical Gardeners, Amateurs, Architects, and Builders. With 24 Plans. Fcap. folio, cloth, 12s. NOTES ON COLLECTING AND PRESERVING NATURAL HISTORY OBJECTS. Edited by JE TAYLOR, FLS, FGS, Editor of
Page 16 - SCHLEIDEN, JM, MD THE PRINCIPLES OF SCIENTIFIC BOTANY; or, Botany as an Inductive Science. Translated by Dr. LANKESTER. Numerous Woodcuts and Six Steel Plates. Demy 8vo, cloth, los.
Page 19 - Botany," when finished, will be exhaustive of the subject, and worthy of the branch of science it illustrates. ... In turning over the charmingly executed hand-coloured plates of British plants which encumber these volumes with riches, the reader cannot help being struck with the beauty of many of the humblest flowering weeds we tread on with careless step. We cannot dwell upon many of the individuals grouped in the...
Page 11 - It contains a complete Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Dictionary of the Landed Commoners of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, and gives a Brief Notice of the Descent, Birth, Marriage, Education, and Appointments of each Person...
Page 19 - ALS The Distinctive Characteristics of this edition are,— 1. A life-size drawing of every British plant, arranged according; to the Natural System of De Candolle. 2. Where necessary, the plates are accompanied by illustrations of the structure of the various organs of the plant, especially of those structures discovered within the last few years by the use of the microscope. 3. All the illustrations are full-coloured, instead of half-coloured, and the utmost care is taken to adhere as closely as...

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