C U R TIS'S 



Botanical Magazine; 



O R, 



Flower-Garden Difplayed : 



IN WHICH 



The moil Ornamental Foreign Plants, cultivated in the 

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

 accurately reprefented in their natural Colours. 



TO WHICH ARE ADDED, 



Their Names, Clafs, Order, Generic and Specific Characters, according 



to the celebrated Linn.eus ; 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 

 wilh to become fcientifically acquainted with the Plants they cultivate. 



CONTINUED BY 



JOHN SIMS, M. D. 



Fellow of the Linnean Society. 



— The roof UiLi ! « U«5£' 



Of thickeft covert was inwoven (hade, 



Laurel and myrtle, and what higher grew « 



Of firm and fragrant leaf ; on either fide 



Acanthus, and each odorous bulhy ftirub, 



Fenc'd up the verdant wall ; each beauteous flower, 



Iris all hues, rofes, and jeffamin, 



Rear'd high their flourifh'd heads between, and wrought 



Mofaic ; underfoot the violet, 



Crocus, and hyacinth, with rich inlay, 



Eroider'd the ground, more colour'd than with ftone 



Of coftlieft emblem; M, L ton. 



LONDON: 



Printed by Stephen Couchman, Throgmorton-Street. 



Publiihed by Sherwood, Neely, & Jones, ao, Patemofter-Rw, 



And Sold by the principal Book fellers in Great-Britain and Ireland. 



MDCCCIX. 



