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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