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In 1787 William Curtis commenced "The Botanical 

 Magazine/' which has been published without intermission 

 to the present day. This work, which is beautifully illus- 

 trated, was for some years edited by Curtis and Sim, then 

 by Sir William Hooker, and is now edited by Sir Joseph 

 Hooker, and although botanical rather than horticultural, 

 can hardly be omitted from the Literature of Gardening. 

 A copy of this work sold recently for 118. 



William Marshall, who took part in the Knight- 

 Repton controversy on landscape gardening, wrote a 

 good book "On Planting and Rural Ornament." H. C. 

 Andrews on Heaths, Roses, &c. (illustrated), Forsyth on 

 Fruit Trees, Maddock on Florists' Flowers, Steele on 

 Stove and Greenhouse Plants, M'Phail on General Gar- 

 dening, and Bucknall on Orchards, are writers of this 

 period still worthy of perusal. Repton's works on Land- 

 scape Gardening (1794-1817) were paramount in their 

 day, and are still highly valued by many. But at the 

 close of the i8th and dawn of the I9th century the name 

 of Thomas Andrew Knight is the most prominent in the 

 Literature of Gardening, principally by the numerous 

 papers he contributed to the " Transactions of the Horti- 

 cultural Society of London," of which Society he was the 

 President. Of distinguished merit are the works of Walter 

 Nicol (1798-1810) on General Gardening, and William 

 Pontey (1814-1823) on Forest Trees. Professor Martyn, 

 of Cambridge, in his edition of "Miller's Gardeners' 

 Dictionary" (1803-1807), furnished a valuable contribu- 

 tion to the Literature of Gardening. 



But the greatest of writers on our subject was John 

 Claudius Loudon (1783-1843), whose works on every 

 branch of gardening raised it to a higher position than 

 it had yet enjoyed, and placed within reach of its votaries 

 full, clear, and accurate information concerning the details 

 of its various practices. His " Encyclopedia of Garden- 

 ing" and "Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum " are 

 prodigies of industry and skill, and specially valuable as 



