PREFACE. 



The completion of another Volume of the Floricultural Cabinet 

 furnishes us an appropriate occasion for surveying the path we have 

 pursued as the Conductor during the past year; and in doing so, it 

 is peculiarly encouraging, and affords us considerable satisfaction, to 

 have practical results as an evidence that our humble efforts to aid in 

 promoting the interesting, intellectual, and delightful pursuits of 

 Floriculture, have met with such stedfast and munificent support. 



At the time we commenced the Floricultural Cabinet, there 

 were a few Monthly Magazines containing coloured figures of plants, 

 accompanied with a description of them, but these were so expensive 

 as to preclude the far greater portion of the floral public from being 

 advantaged by them, and scarcely anything of the practical manage- 

 ment of the flowers they contained were given. We take the credit 

 of being first to offer to a floral public a work so necessary and de- 

 sirable in so cheap a form, by the publication of the Floricultural 

 Cabinet. Our endeavours, so nobly supported, have been attended 

 with a success we never anticipated. Having a knowledge what was 

 the kind of information required and which would fully meet that 

 exigency, we have invariably strove to admit into our pages only 

 those subjects calculated to edify ; and to prevent anything of a dis- 

 tasteful and worthless character being brought to the notice of our 

 readers through the medium of the Floricultural Cabinet. 



The efforts we have made, so generously aided by a Floral Public, 

 and being so very extensively approved, has induced other persons 

 from time to time to commence periodical publications on Horticul- 

 ture; but we unhesitatingly flatter ourselves that we are not behind 

 any of our contemporaries in the work of improvement, but as we are 

 thousands of copies monthly in advance upon them, so the aggregate 

 of subjects inserted in the Floricultural Cabinet are alike fore- 



