.      THE ANNALS OF HORTICULTURE;   And Yearbook Of Information On Practical Gardening.    London: Charles Cox,   1848.          The third of five annual volumes of this illustrated monthly gardening periodical. The editorship and most of the articles are anonymous, although George Glenny is cited as the author on many of these, including a series of short monographs on individual flowers. The content is focused largely on garden flowers, although this volume also includes a few articles relating to landscape design and garden architecture. There is also an attractive hand-colored floral frontispiece by James Andrews.   8vo (25.7 x 16.5 cm); xvi + 576 pp. with occasional wood-engraved text illustrations + hand-colored lithograph frontispiece.            Original gilt embossed decorative cloth; spine extremities chipped and worn. $220.00

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