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PREFACE. 



most in what is really interesting and useful to the Floriculturist. 

 To have been raised to so elevated a position we are deeply indebted 

 to our obliging friends and correspondents, who have so kindly 

 assisted us with manuscript communications, drawings, specimens of 

 flowers, &c, and we beg again to record our grateful sense of obliga- 

 tion to them, and very respectfully solicit a continuance of their gene- 

 rous support ; with such aid we reiterate the assurance to our 

 subscribers, that no jpracticable means of rendering this publication 

 additionally and enduringly attractive, and worthy their support and 

 recommendation, shall remain untried. 



We have made arrangements for several improvements in future, 

 and our next number will be a specimen of what we refer to. 



The very extensive circulation of the Floricultural Cabinet, 

 brings us a proportionate extent of valuable assistance in notices of, 

 and remarks on, new plants, modes of culture, &c, and in which 

 particular it stands so superior to any other. This favourable cir- 

 cumstance, in connexion with our free admission to all the first 

 collections of plants in the country, enables us to give on such early 

 occasions plates of the newest and most showy flowers. The fact, 

 too, of the extensive circulation of this publication, makes it propor- 

 tionately the best medium of advertising new flowers, &c, and the 

 extent to which this is done, alone causes it to be much more valuable 

 to a floral public than its cost. These united advantages render the 

 Floricultural Cabinet unequalled in value as a floral publication. 

 That it may retain its superior position, we again record, every effor t 

 in our power shall be exerted ; and the past kindness and liberality 

 of our friends guarantee us in reposing implicit confidence in having 

 their future aid, and our gratitude shall be proved by our deeds. 



Downham, November 21s/, 1840. 



