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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Paxton’s FLOWER-GARDEN ; by JOHN LINDLEY and JOSEPH PAXTON. 
4to. No. I. and IJ. London. March and April 1850. 
The close of the year 1847 witnessed the termination of Edwards’ 
* Botanical Register,—a work commenced, we believe, in a spirit of 
rivalry, if not of hostility, to ‘ Curtis’s Botanical Magazine ;’ but, of 
late years, under the editorship of Dr. Lindley, it has proved one of 
the most important vehicles for the communication of pure botanical 
and horticultural knowledge that has ever appeared in any age or 
country. It reached to the completion of the 33rd volume. 
At the close of the last year, 1849, Mr. Paxton’s ‘ Magazine of 
Botany’ also was concluded with the 16th volume ; and, at the same 
period, it was announced that a new work would appear shortly, in the 
joint names of Lindley and Paxton (and no names can stand higher in 
Botany and Horticulture), the object of which was “to supply,in monthly 
numbers, as full an account of all the new and remarkable plants intro- 
duced into cultivation as is necessary to the gardener, and as the price 
and extent of a periodical will furnish. The history of such plants will 
be sought in the Botanical works published on the Continent, to which 
cultivators have little access, as well as in those of our own country, 
and in the gardens or herbaria from which they are derived." “To 
effect this purpose, it is proposed to separate each number into two 
distinct parts. In the first part will be found three coloured plates of 
plants, which, from their beauty or remarkable tints, especially demand 
this expensive style of illustration.” ‘The title of the second part, 
‘Gleanings and Original Memoranda,’ fully explains its purpose. Un- 
important species will be merely mentioned ; those of higher inte- 
rest will be described at greater length; and of the most remarkable 
kinds there will be introduced woodcuts, in which an attempt will be 
made to combine accurate representations with some pictorial effect.” 
In short, the work may be considered an union of the publications of 
the two respective authors, with the addition of the plants “ sought in 
the Botanical works published on the Continent.” 
With a view to render full justice to the plates, an artist from Paris 
