PREFACE, 



In presenting our readers with the Fith Volume of the Flori- 

 cultural Cabinet, we do most unfeignedly offer our most sincere 

 thanks to our numerous subscribers and contributors for their 

 patronage and support. 



Although, with each former Volume, we had the high gratifi- 

 cation of an increasing demand, yet the circulation has extended 

 more during the present year than any previous one, since our 

 first Volume was published, and the sale has been increased 

 by more than ten thousand numbers. This fact affords us no 

 ordinary degree of pleasure, whilst it assures us that our 

 labours have been approved. 



Nearly up to the present period, our opportunities for 

 acquiring information for all the recently introduced plants 

 has been very limited, by reason of our engagements in the 

 situation we held as Gardener, at Wortley Hall; but now being 

 at liberty, we have every desired opportimity of obtaining in- 

 formation of their introduction, character, culture, &c. With 

 this object in view we have spent the past autumn in, and 

 around London, viewing collections of plants, obtaining infor- 

 mation, and taking notes thereof. These particulars will be 

 given in future numbers. So sensible are we of the advan- 

 tages that are afforded by viewing collections in and around the 

 Metropolis, (which is in the aggregate the great mart for newly 

 introduced plants,) and of such information being embodied 

 in the Cabinet, for the benefit of our Readers, that we intend 

 immediately to take a residence in or near London, and pur- 

 pose to devote that attention to the subject, which will, wo are 

 persuaded, prove both interesting and useful to our subscribers, 



