THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



MARCH 1st, 1633. 



INTRODUCTION. 



The vegetable creation in its varieties of foiin, colour auil scent, has 

 Lad its increasing attractions to maniind from the days of Adam down 

 to the present period ; and such is its fascinating influence, that it ex- 

 cites admiration from the earliest age of infancy to the decline of life,— 

 from the inmates of the cottage to those of the palace : and at the pre- 

 sent day a taste for the cultivation and accumulation of flowering plants 

 is so universal, that it appears their presence is considered a necessary 

 appendage to the dwelling. 



For this lovely order of creation we have from early childhood pos- 

 sessed almost an hereditary attachment, and having derived much plea- 

 sure ourselves from an attention to the culture of the riches and beauties 

 of vegetable nature, we are solicitous that other persons should be par- 

 takers of the daily increasing delight it affords ; in the promotion of 

 which we are anxiously disposed to employ all the means and energies 

 we possess. 



To accomplish the object of our solicitude in the best possible way, 

 to the greatest extent, and in a manner most calculated to benefit, is 

 not in the power of an individual ; this can only be done by the united 

 talent and experience of a gardening public. To obtain help so im- 

 portant and desirable, we therefore most humbly and respectfully solicit 

 the co-operation of all lovers and cultivators of flowers to communicate 

 the result of any improvements or observations upon any thing interest- 

 in'' connected with Floriculture, because the wider the range of practice 

 and intelligence, the greater their number and importance will most 

 certainly be. A medium through which to circulate them was therefore 

 necessary ; for although there are existing publications in whose pages 

 the culture of flowering plants is admitted, yet they are of too general 

 a character for great numbers of Floriculturists ; for in order to obtain 

 what may be inserted that is of interest in Floriculture, a far greater 

 portion of matter has to be purchased, which to them is wlioUy useless. 

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