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Project Gutenberg's The Botanical Magazine, Vol. I, by William Curtis This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Botanical Magazine, Vol. I Or, Flower-Garden Displayed Author: William Curtis Release Date: December 2, 2005 [EBook #17198] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, VOL. I *** Produced by Jason Isbell, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file made using scans of public domain works at the University of Georgia.) [Transcriber's note: Many inconsistencies appeared in the original book and were retained in this version.] 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
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