PREFACE. 



It was with feelings of the most flattering description that we 

 presented the former Volumes of the Floricultural Cabinet 

 to our Readers ; and in consequence of the very great increase 

 in the circulation of the Work during the present year, we are 

 free to acknowledge a proportionate increase in the debt of gra- 

 titude due from us to our Contributors and Readers ; and we 

 beg to offer them our sincere thanks for their continued sup- 

 port. 



This, our Third Volume, will, we feel assured, be found to 

 equal either of the former ones in valuable and interesting 

 information to the Florist ; whilst in other respects a consi- 

 derable improvement has been effected^ and we doubt not our 

 Readers will consider that we have fulfilled the pledge we gave 

 in the Preface to our Second Volume. 



We again solicit the co-operation of our Floricultural Friends, 

 in contributing any particulars calculated to instruct and gratify 

 our Readers. 



Our next Volume will contain a number of Plans of Flower 

 Gardens, Flower Beds, Greenhouses, Conservatories, &c, several 

 Plates of which arc in progress. The Readers of the Flori- 

 cdltdiul Cabinet who have handsomely formed Flower Gar- 

 dens, Beds, &c, will much oblige us by sending Sketches and 

 Plans of thein, as this will effectually assist us in the further- 

 ■aoe of out object. 



Worthy, Dtcember, l«3i>. 



