Thi. Third Serie. wO, be coined forthwith , and we are not -out her* hat *--*-"- 

 attending the option of the rt may he such as to fa** . -re raptd - U* has .!■« 

 the case with the scn« |* now brought to n ^elusion, atace many sketches are already ,n hand, and 



Subscribers, however, should hear in mind that it is very unfairtk. in a work of thU character to 

 figure new ilowcrs on the occasion of their first blooming in this country, as they rarely show thor fuU 

 beauty under the adverae conditions to which they have been submitted, namely, that of having been 

 shortly before torn from their natural habitats, packed in eases, conveyed thousands of mite, and mtroduecd 

 into our plant-houscs without a living root or leaf to support them, while oar cultivator, are, from want of 

 experience, cither in total or partial ignorance of the best mode of treatment. 



The price and size of the work, together with the style of execution, will continue to be the samo as 

 in this Second Series. 



ROBERT WAliXKK. 



8, Crescent, Cripplegatc, London, 

 April. 1875. 



