In the Press, and will soon be ready for Publication, BY MESSRS. LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN,

AN

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PLANTS;

COMPRISING AME(ITS DERIVATION AND ACCENTUATION), SYNONYM, DESCRIPTION. PECIFIC CHARACTER, HISTORY, USE, PROPAGATION, CULTURE, AND APPLICATION IN THE ARTS,

THE N Ss

; OF ALL THE PLANTS INDIGENOUS OR IN CULTIVATION IN BRITAIN;

COMBINING A LINNZAN AND JUSSIEUEAN SPECIES PLANTARUM,

ALL THE ADVANTAGES OF AN.HISTORIA PLANTARUM,

AND

@ Dictionary of Meaetable Culture.

THE WHOLE IN ENGLISH, Ss ON A NEW PRINCIPLE, AND WITH

AND ILLUSTRATED WITH PICTORIAL TYPE NTERESTING SPECIES.

_ MANY THOUSAND ENGRAVINGS OF THE MOST I

Edited by J.C. LOUDON, FS HSs icc.

AUTHOR OF THE ENCYC LOPEDIA OF GARDENING.

rs by an eminent Botanist, the Drawings for the Figures by Sowerby, 4

The specific Characte the Printing by Messrs. Spottiswoode.

the Engravings on Wood by Branston, and

h is meant to be combined in this work, which, it information in the same bulk than has This advantage has been attained jointly

dine above title indicates how muc may be confidently stated, will contain more

hitherto been given in any work of the kind. by the ingenuity of the plan, the small-sized letter, and the pictorial signs. The latter

have been alluded to in the Encyclopedia of Gardening(p. 126. 2d edit.), and will form an original feature in this work, and one of the utmost importance in point of utility. T’o illustrate their use, let us take the woody plants:— these, of whatever kind, are

all designated in common works by one particular sign(h) 3 whether the ligneous ve- fir, deciduous or evergreen, a shrub

getable be six inches or sixty feet high, a palm, a or an undershrub, a twiner, 4 climber, or a trailer, this sign is alike applied. In our than a dozen signs for woody plants, indicative of the above and and

work we have more

other peculiarities of habit; and we have annuals, distinguishing bulbs, tuberous roots, twiners, bog plants, aquatics, succulents, parasites,&c.&c. and not arbitrary or conventional, understood at the first glance. invention of memory.

Independently of the usual characteristics of time of flowering. introduction, reference to figures, we also give the color of the habitations of British species, the soil, and mode of propagation, in general works.

We have also numbered the great use in gardens and nurserie names, and ensuring accuracy 2d edit.)

As all the plants of intere popular reader, the cultivator, anc

an equal number for perennials, pbiennials. ramose or fibrous roots, creepers, climbers, ‘These signs be pictorial, are>, and require no 4 native country, year of flower, the height, the

which are new features

a manner which will be found of jor of writing out catalogues ane 9.

genera and species in of Gard. page 105¢

s, In abridging the lak in these respects.(See Encyc. >° ere E: a“av the st for their beauty, curiosity, OF use, Will be eng? ved, 1 the botanist, will be alike instructed and entertamed.