It flowers early in the spring; and-is a very desirable shrub 
for the greenhouse or conservatory. Propagated by cuttings. 
intropper by Mr. Auten, of the Union Nursery, King’s 
Road, from M. Cexs’s garden, near Paris, and communi- 
cated by him in March last. __ — 
We have been sometimes blamed for giving plants which 
have been before figured in the Botanical Register, a censure 
-to which no one of our numbers has been so much exposed 
as the present. In this case; however, as in most others, it 
was hardly possible to have been avoided, our drawing being 
made and engraved before the publication of it in the Register. 
To the very few persons who take in both works, it is no 
doubt more desirable that. their contents should in every case 
be different, and, as. far as is compatible with the interest of 
the proprietors, and the satisfaction of the majority of our 
subscribers, it is our desire to accommodate our numbers to 
the wishes of those few. But every considerate person, who 
is at all acquainted with the business, must see that this in- 
convenience is more easily pointed out than prevented. The — 
flowering season of plants is fugitive, the recurrences of op> 
portunity often uncertain, which, united with other circum- 
stances, makes it necessary to accumulate our drawings long 
before they can be used ; and the artists of the first eminence, 
who have been always employed in drawing for the Botanical 
Magazine, are paid too highly for their labours to allow of 
these being thrown aside. It must be seén too, that in the 
case of newly introduced plants of unusual beauty, or of 
general curiosity, it will be thought a poor excuse by our 
numerous subscribers, the majority of whom are perhaps 
pos of no other work containing figures of plants, to 
be told that they may be accommodated elsewhere. The 
Botanical Magazine now contains figures of upwards of two 
thousand species, drawn from nature, by the most eminent 
artists, a number, exclusive of cryptogamous plants, never 
before attained in any botanical work; and is progessively 
increasing in importance; and may in. time be expected to 
contain representations of most of the important plants cultt- 
vated in our gardens. | 
