PREFACE. 



We have again arrived at the close of another year's volume of the 

 FLOKicuLTtJRAi Cabinet, and the agreeable duty now devolves upon 

 us of recording the usual annual address to our correspondents and 

 readers. 



It has been with feelings of the most flattering description that we 

 have presented the previous eighteen volumes. The continually in- 

 creasing support we have received during the present year, and by 

 which we have been enabled to complete the nineteenth volume, we 

 are free to acknowledge a proportionate increase in the debt of grati- 

 tude is due from us to our contributors and readers. To them we most 

 respectfully tender our thanks for the encouragement which has so 

 liberally been afforded us, and in the succeeding volume our utmost 

 exertions shall be directed to render it increasingly interesting and 

 useful, so that it may be worthy of their continued confidence^ and 

 support. 



Aware that many of our readers have not the opportunity of fre- 

 quently visiting large collections of plants, nor have the means of 

 ascertaining the continued introduction of new plants, we have there- 

 fore paid considerable attention to obtain particulars of all such as are 

 received from time to time in the large establishments of our own 

 country, as well as those on the Continent, from whence such new 

 plants can now be so easily procured. We also feel assured that many 



