PREFACE. 
r I ^ H E prefent periodical publication owes its com- 
mencement to the repeated folicitations of feveral 
Ladies and Gentlemen, Subfcribers to the Authors 
Botanic Garden, who were frequently lamenting 
the want of a work, which might enable them, not 
only to acquire a fyflematic knowledge of the Foreign 
Plants growing in their gardens, but which might at 
the fame time afford them the belt information 
refpe6iing their culture — in fa&, a work, in which 
Botany and Gardening (fo far as relates to the culture 
of ornamental Plants) or the labours of Linnaeus and 
Miller, might happily be combined. 
In compliance with their wifhes, he has endeavoured 
to prefent them with the united information of both 
authors, and to illuflrate each by a fet of new 
figures, drawn always from the living plant, and 
coloured as near to nature, as the imperfe6iion of 
colouring will admit. 
He does not mean, however, to confine himfelf 
folely to die Plants contained in the highly eflcemed 
works of diofe luminaries of ^Botany and Gardening, 
but 
