THE 



Botanical Magazine; 



O R, 



Flower-Garden Difplayed : 



IN WHICH 

 The molt Ornamental Foreign Plants, cultivated in the 

 Open Ground, the Green-Houfe, and the Stove, are ac- 

 curately reprefented in their natural Colours. 



TO WHICH ARE ADDED, 



Their Names, Clafs, 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 Ufe of fuch Ladies, Gentlemen, and Gardeners, as 

 wifh to become fcientifically acquainted with the Plants they cultivate. 



By WILLIAM C ITR T I S, 



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Author of the Flora Londinensis. 



VOL. VI. 



r thou difdain 



To check the lawlefs riot of the trees, 

 To plant the grove, or turn the barren mould. 

 O happy lie ! whom, when his year, decline, 

 (His fortune and hi, fame by worthy means 

 Attain'd, and equal to his mod'rate mind ; 

 His life approv'd by all the wife and good. 

 Even envy'd by the vain) the peaceful grovel 

 Of Epicurui, from this flormy world, 

 Receive to reft ; of all ungrateful cares 

 AbMv'd, and facrcd from the felfifh crowd. 

 Happied of men ! if the fame foil invitei 

 cnof * n few, companions of his youth, 



1 Once fellow-rakes perhaps now rural friends ; 

 1 With whom in eafy commerce to purfue 

 1 Nature's free charms, and vie for Sylvan fame 

 A fair ambition ; void of ftrifc, or guile, 

 Or jcaloufy, or pain to be outdone. 

 Who plans th' enchanted garden, who direBt 

 The vilto bed, and beft conduces the Bream ; 

 Whofe groves the faffed thicken, and af'cend ; 

 Whom hrft the welcome fpiing falutes ; whofbewj 

 The earlieft bloom, the fweeteil proudeil charms 

 Of Flora ; who beft give, Pomona's juice 

 To match the lprightly genius of Champain." 



ARMSTRONG. 



L O N D O N : 



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