PREFACE. 



During the past year the taste for gardening, particularly 

 Floriculture, has made rapid advances, and the very extensive 

 circulation of Monthly Periodicals on Floriculture, as well as 

 other works on Gardening, have very considerably increased 

 the stimulus to these delightful pursuits. 



The continued increase in the circulation of the Floricultu- 

 ral Cabinet, is a gratifying assurance that our efforts have 

 been approved, and it is with great pleasure that we are now 

 enabled to supply complete sets from its commencement. 



Our endeavours have been to obtain Figures of the newest and 

 best plants of recent introduction, and to give the earliest in- 

 formation of such, and where they may be obtained, with all 

 particulars we could collect respecting them. In order to 

 effect this, and to obtain a knowledge of the best way of man- 

 aging any ornamental plants, &c we have very frequently 

 visited all the public nurseries in the vicinity of London, and 

 elsewhere, as well as private establishments, in order to collect 

 useful facts, that they might be inserted in the Cabinet. 



Many of our correspondents have, from time to time for- 

 warded questions on Floriculture which have been inserted, 

 with a view to obtain answers to them. When an immediate 

 one has been required, we have attended to it soon after, but 

 when expressed in a general manner for our Headers, we 

 have judged it best to let it stand over, so that other opinions 

 might be furnished. We shall at all times be glad if our 

 Readers will thus favour us, and on a reperusal of back Num- 



