should be more consulted, than they were, some few years since, when one 
or two collections only, about London, could, for a short period, boast of pos- 
oon ag cimens, We will just observe, that these are considerations 
of vegetable life well worthy of the attention of the intelligent botanic gar- 
dener : it should ever be his business to imitate nature in the care and treat- 
ment of her vegetable subjects, by affording them, as far as practicable, the 
soil, the temperature, and situation in which they flourish in their native re- 
ions, when these can be ascertained ; and it should be no less the duty of 
He botuntb traveller to communicate these and other circumstances, in re- 
spect to the seasons of growth and cessation from it of plants of equinoctial 
countries, in which he may have extended his labours, as all such will greatly 
aid the skill of the intelligent cultivator. 
