THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



JUNE 1st, 1834. 



PART I. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



ARTICLE 1.— An Essay on Floivers. Communicated 

 by Gultrlmus. 



Having derived both amusement and instruction from the peru- 

 sal of vour useful and interesting publication, the Floriculiuraf 

 Cabinet, to which I have subscribed from its commencement, I 

 feel desirous of promoting its object by sending you the following 

 elegant Essay on Flowers, which I haVe transcribed from the " New 

 Monthly Magazine :;" 1*2^; and wish it may prove the means of 

 stimulating others to- support your undertaking, and cause them 

 more particularly to attend to the delightful and healthful pleasures 

 of the flower-garden) as it has been to Gulielmus. 



London, 20th February, 1834. 



When summer's delightful season arrives, rarely in this country 

 ioo warm to be enjoyed throughout the day in the open air, there 

 is nothing more grateful than a profusion of choice flowers around 

 and within our dwellings. The humblest apartments, ornamented 

 with these beautiful productions of nature, have, in my view, a 

 more <h li'.'litful effeel than the proudest saloons with gilded ceilings 

 and bahgrngi of Genoa velvet. The richness of the latter, indeed, 

 would be heightened, and their elegance increased, by the judicious 

 tafrodsction of (lowers and foliage with them. The odour of 



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