214 Gleanings in Old Garden Literature. 



published a Companion to the Magazine in 

 1788; it was a periodical which exercised 

 a powerful influence on the advancement of 

 botany and the diffusion of an interest in 

 the subject 



The younger Curtis, besides editing his 

 father's Flora, brought out in 1822 a mono- 

 graph on the Camellia. 



Next to Curtis and his son comes 

 SOWERBY, a family which during more than 

 half a century (1790-1850) occupied a 

 prominent and honourable position in this 

 department as well as in those of conchology 

 and mineralogy. The English Botany of 

 James Sowerby appeared between 1790 and 

 1820 in numbers forming six-and-thirty 

 octavo volumes ; and it is still a favourite 

 and useful set of books. A supplement was 

 afterward added. 



This is perhaps James Sowerby the Elder's 

 best known work, and that on which his 

 reputation chiefly depends. But both his 

 son and himself and George Brettingham 

 Sowerby continued to enrich our literature 

 with erudite compilations on nearly every 



