PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. 



IN a space df time unusually short for a work of this kind, a very large edition 

 has been sold; and, in preparing a New Edition, the Editor's effort has been 

 to correct such faults and deficiencies as have been detected since the publica- 

 tion of the first, and to add the New Plants which subsequently hare been 

 discovered. These, with the Tery copious List of Synonymes, will render this 

 Dictionary still more useful. 



It is proposed, from time to time, to publish Supplements, containing 

 all New Plants, with notes on such novelties as merit the attention of tlie 

 Amateur and Gardener. 



December, 1856. 



EXPLANATIONS. 



IT seems only necessary to observe that, to facilitate the proper pronun- 

 ciation of the names, the vowel in the syllable on which the emphasis is 

 to be laid is denoted by an accent placed after the vowel : Thus, in 

 ABE'LIA, the emphasis is laid upon the BE ; and in floribu'nda on the 

 bun. The other particulars scarcely need any explanation. The specific 

 name of each plant is translated into English ; and then follows the 

 height of the plant (where the figure or figures stand alone, either feet 

 or the fraction of a foot being intended); the colour of the flower; the 

 month when it begins to bloom; the native place; and the year of 

 iutroduction. 



