NOVEMBER 



Present of ' The Botanist ' Echeveria and Euphorbia splendens 

 Cowper on greenhouses Cultivation of greenhouse plants 

 Bookseller at Frankfort Dr. Wallace on Lilies Receipts 

 Winter in the country The sorting of old letters. 



November 1st. One of those most pleasant echoes of 

 my first book came to me to-day. I received a letter, 

 addressed to the care of my publisher, from a lady who 

 was so pleased with my commendation of her father's 

 work ('The Botanic Garden,' by B. Maund) that she 

 kindly asked to be allowed to send me, what I had long 

 wished to have, the five volumes of his second book, 

 ' The Botanist ' a gardening periodical which was 

 published only for five years, as the coloured illustra- 

 tions were too costly to be continued. The first number 

 was issued in January, 1825. It contains full -page 

 illustrations of stove, greenhouse, and new hardy plants 

 new, that is, in 1825. I have had it bound, and it is 

 a great addition to my collection of flower -books. The 

 original drawings were chiefly made by Mrs. Withers, 

 who was the first flower -painter of that day. The title- 

 page bears the following inscription : 



The Botanist : containing Accurately Coloured 

 Figures of Tender and Hardy Ornamental Plants, 

 with Descriptions Scientific and Popular, intended to 

 convey both Moral and Intellectual Gratification.' A 

 quotation is added from Sir J. E. Smith: 'The world 

 seems to have discovered that nothing about which 

 Infinite Wisdom has deigned to employ itself can, prop- 

 erly speaking, be unworthy of any of its creatures, how 



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