IV PREFACE. 



In the popularisation of Botany, the author is 

 well aware that those efforts are most likely to 

 meet with success which are directed towards the 

 elucidation of our native Flora; and he has accord- 

 ingly dwelt at some length on this part of the 

 subject. 



Although written in a style calculated to engage 

 the attention of the general reader, it is confidently 

 hoped that the work may likewise prove a useful 

 Manual to the cultivator, and be found worthy of 

 perusal by the scientific botanist. 



November, 1850. 



