Title:  The Botanical Magazine, Vol.  I Or, Flower-Garden Displayed

Author:  William Curtis

Release Date:  December 2, 2005 [EBook #17198]

Language:  English

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  The

  Botanical Magazine;

  Or,

  Flower-Garden Displayed: 

  In which

  The most Ornamental foreign plants, cultivated in the
  Open Ground, the Green-House, and the Stove, are accurately
  represented in their natural Colours.

  To which are added,

  Their Names, Class, Order, Generic and Specific Characters, according
  to the celebrated Linnaeus; their Places of Growth, and
  Times of Flowering: 

  Together with

  The most approved methods of culture.

  A work

Intended for the Use of such ladies, gentlemen, and gardeners, as
wish to become scientifically acquainted with the Plants they cultivate.

By William Curtis,

Author of the Flora LONDINENSIS.

Vol.  I

“A Garden is the purest of human Pleasures.” 
VERULAM.

London: 
Printed by Couchman and Fry, Throgmorton-Street,
For W. Curtis, at his botanic-garden, Lambeth-Marsh;
And Sold by the principal Booksellers in Great-Britain and Ireland. 
M DCC XC.

PREFACE.

The present periodical publication owes its commencement to the repeated solicitations of several Ladies and Gentlemen, Subscribers to the Author’s botanic garden, who were frequently lamenting the want of a work, which might enable them, not only to acquire a systematic knowledge of the Foreign Plants growing in their gardens, but which might at the same time afford them the best information respecting their culture—­in fact, a work, in which Botany and Gardening (so far as relates to the culture of ornamental Plants) or the labours of Linnaeus and Miller, might happily be combined.

In compliance with their wishes, he has endeavoured to present them with the united information of both authors, and to illustrate each by a set of new figures, drawn always from the living plant, and coloured as near to nature, as the imperfection of colouring will admit.