ADVERTISEMENT. 



THE present Volume contains all the figures of the dif- 

 ferent species, and the most prominent varieties, that the 

 Author has at present been able to procure : he has, there- 

 fore, brought the work to a conclusion ; which he be- 

 lieves will be more agreeable to the greater part of his 

 Subscribers, than to keep it open for a length of time, 

 to admit others occasionally, as they may be newly in- 

 troduced to the gardens, or as the old species might be 

 sometimes found in obscure collections, where they are 

 little expected to be. 



A great many interesting species that were plentiful 

 in the nursery collections some years back, are not now 

 to be met with, many of them being sufficiently hardy 

 to endure a favourable Winter without protection, but 

 to be destroyed by a severe one, when the least covering 

 would preserve them ; the correct names of them were 

 also so little known, and one substituted for another so 

 frequently, that caused less attention to be paid to them 

 than they deserved, which we hope will not be the case 

 in future, as a very little protection is sufficient for the 

 whole of them, and nothing produces a more brilliant 

 effect, than a collection of them planted in rock- work, 

 or even grown in small pots, and placed together in a 

 clump, where the different colours may all be intermixed, 

 or kept separate, according to the taste or fancy of the 

 possessor. 



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