PREFACE. 



In concluding the first volume of the English Flower Garden, our warmest 

 acknowledgments are due to our Subscribers for their kind support. 



The encouragement we have hitherto received has, it is true, hardly been 

 so flattering as we could have desired; but this may be, in great part, 

 attributed to the very limited publicity given to the work, and also, in 

 some degree, to the deficiencies of the publication itself, and of the 

 existence of which we are fully conscious. 



We are, however, induced to continue our labour's, and venture to 

 indulge the hope that we shall have no cause to regret this determination. 



In a work containing so many Illustrations, our readers are aware that 

 the amount of letter-press must necessarily be much smaller than in those 

 publications unaccompanied by Plates. To judge of the cheapness of the 

 English Flower Garden, it should be compared with other illustrated 

 works of the same price ; and we are sure, where this comparison is 

 made, it will result in the conclusion, that no other work of the same 

 character contains so large a number of figures, with such an amount of 

 interesting matter. 



In the forthcoming volume, we have made arrangements for increasing 

 considerably the attractions of the work. "We hope to attain greater 

 uniformity in the size of the figures, and no pains will be spared to 

 ensure the strictest fidelity in their execution. In one or two instances, 

 the colouring of the Plates of the past numbers has been effected in a 

 hurried manner, owing to the numerous difficulties we have had to contend 

 with, which have, on more than one occasion, compelled us to hesitate 



