PREFACE. 



Time, which, amidst the various projects and occupations of man, 

 pursues its course without interruption or delay, has at length 

 brought our labours, as Conductor of the Floricultural Cabinet, to 

 the conclusion of another volume, and it again becomes our duty to 

 present to our readers those observations, which, in the nature of a 

 preface to the present volume, they have a right to claim from us. 



The close of our seventh volume (in 1839) was the termination of 

 our First Series of this Magazine. We then stated that the next 

 seven volumes would form a Second Series, and the present 

 volume (the fourteenth) is the concluding one. Our annual obser- 

 vations and engagements relative to the past volumes, have statedly 

 been recorded in each, and when we now review the materials with 

 which, by the aid of our respected correspondents we have been 

 enabled to furnish our readers in the present volume, we cannot 

 suppress a feeling of humble, but grateful satisfaction. 



For useful, instructive, and varied interesting information, — for 

 the choice of the newest, ornamental and beautiful subjects in its 

 coloured figures of plants, — for the accuracy and effect of the execu- 

 tion, we are persuaded that this volume exceeds every predecessor 

 To enable us to accomplish this, we are deeply indebted, as in 

 former years, to our esteemed correspondents, and it now is our 

 pleasing duty again to tender our grateful acknowledgments. 



Our next number will be the first of a Third Series, in which 

 we shall attempt successively further improvements, and in the 

 prosecution thereof we shall use our utmost exertions to merit the 

 entire approval of those whom it will be our anxious aim to please ; 

 and all means that may be suggested to us, or which may occur to 

 our own thoughts, for maintaining the unequalled eminence, to 



