jy PREFACE. 



]''ionitui.TURAL Cabinet, or fur tlic management, in future, to be 

 undertaken by us. We rejected tbe union, and refused to give the 

 aid solicited. When we commenced the Floricultural Cabinet, 

 we stated our main object, and we have unvaryingly pursued it. It 

 is strictly a work on Flowers and Floriculture, and our subscribers 

 have not to pay five-sixths of the cost for matter wholly unconnected 

 with flowers, in order to possess the remnant of one-sixth on the 

 subject; we have given the value, in floral information alone, in 

 every number issued, and that not equalled by any other publication 

 of its extent. 



Our past procedure has been approved by our friends, and we 

 have received encouragement very far beyond what we had ventured 

 to conceive. Our future course will be in the same track, and uni- 

 formly to advance in improvements therein. To enable us to do this 

 most successfully, we again very respectfully solicit the continued 

 assistance of our friends; and, thus supported, our exertions shall 

 realise our professions and prove our gratitude. 



Downham, December loth, 1842. 



