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1839
BOTANICAL WORKS.
NOW PUBLISHING MONTHLY.
LARGE 15, 6d. SMALL 10, 6d.
THE BOTANIST;
E. MAUND, F.L.S., edited by R. HAMMOND, M.A., F.R.S., late Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge.
Comprising botanical expositions and engraved plates of the most admired Plants, cultivated in the Greenhouses, Stoves, and Open Gardens. The drawings are mostly coloured from nature, of the full size of the flowers. General descriptions of the plants, with their history, properties, habits, culture, and geographical distribution. Each volume will contain a Botanical Dictionary, written by Professor Hammond, illustrated by one or more plates.
The Literary Periodicals have unanimously bestowed the highest praise on this Botanist. A few concise Extracts may be given as examples.
Monthly Magazine: "It is a work which was much wanted. The whole style and getting up of it is excellent."
Speculation: "It is undoubtedly one of the choicest, as it promises to be one of the best."
GARDENER'S MAGAZINE: "The plates are remarkably well executed, and the descriptions are very clear and satisfactory."
METROPOLITAN GAZETTE: "We do not know any work better calculated to increase the knowledge of the Botanic Garden."
LITERARY GAZETTE: "This plan is excellent, and the illustrations finely executed."
CONVERSATIONAL MAGAZINE: "The figures of ornamental plants are beautifully coloured, and the descriptions happily combine scientific, popular, and practical information."
METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE: "The engraving and the colouring of the plates are both excellent."
PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE: "An explanation of every Botanical term is given, and the arrangement of the subjects figured renders great credit upon the Conductor of this work."
EVANGELICAL MAGAZINE: "This promises to be the best and cheapest work on practical Botany. The plates are executed in the first style of art."
Volumes I, containing fifty plates, cloth boards, Large 15d. Small 25d., or half-bound in grey Vellum Morocco, Large 15d. Small 25d.
ALSO,
PUBLISHING MONTHLY; LARGE 15, 6d. SMALL 10, 6d.
THE BOTANIC GARDEN;
or, MIRACLES OF
HARDY FLOWERING PLANTS,
BY E. MAUND, F.L.S.
Each number contains four plates, with descriptions of Ornamental Plants, selected for their beauty and utility to the decoration of the Flower Garden, with a popular description of them, and instructions respecting their culture, propagation, and diseases. The Gardener's Assistant, with hints on the culture of the rarer plants, and a detailed account of each plant, and also an AUGUSTINIAN CALENDAR, giving the dates of the appearance of the flowers, the highest Inferior to every cultivator of a Garden.
Six volumes are completed, each containing nineteen plates, in Boards, Large 27s. Small 20s., or half-bound in grey Vellum Morocco, Large 25s. Small 20s.
