Printed dedication page from ‘Curtis’s Botanical Magazine’, volume 100
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Title
Printed dedication page from ‘Curtis’s Botanical Magazine’, volume 100
Record type
Archive
Original Reference
MAW/1/131
Date
1 Dec 1874
Scope & content
Page from ‘Curtis’s Botanical Magazine’ which reads: ‘To George Maw, Esq, FLS, FGS, etc, of Benthall Hall, Broseley. My dear Maw, Allow me to dedicate to you this volume of the ‘Botanical Magazine’, as a tribute to the value of your exertions in introducing hardy herbaceous plants into English gardens. No one of late years, or perhaps ever, has collected with his own hands so many of these for transmission to England, cultivated them with more success, or distributed them with more liberality - as the pages of this work to some small extent testify. Allow me also in this dedication to refer to that delightful excursion to the coasts of Marocco [Morocco] and the Greater Atlas, that we made in company with our friend Mr Ball, and which resulted in the introduction of so many interesting plants not hitherto known to English gardens. Believe me, most sincerely yours, Jos. D. Hooker, Royal Gardens, Kew. Dec 1 1874’