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FAVOURITE FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE. By

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EDWARD STEP, F.L.S. The cultural directions
edited by WILLIAM WATSON, F.R.H.S., Assis-
tant Curator, Royal Gardens, Kew. With 316
Coloured Plates, printed in the finest style of
workmanship from designs drawn and coloured
with minute care direct from living plants.
Medium 8vo, 632 pp., and all necessary prelimin-
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THE FLOWERING PLANTS, GRASSES, SEDGES AND FERNS OF

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GREAT BRITAIN. By ANNE PRATT. A New Edition revised and edited by EDWARD STEP, F.L.S., Author of "Wayside and Woodland Blossoms," etc. In royal 8vo. With 319 full-page Plates, beautifully printed in the natural Colours, and Four pages of Black and White Diagrams, explanatory of technical botanical terms. With about 1,100 pages of Descriptive Letterpress, and full Indices.

N.B.-Part 2 of Style I. is out of stock; we shall

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