NOVEMBER 



Present of ' The Botanist ' Echeveria and Euphorbia spl&ndens 

 Cowper on greenhouses Cultivation of greenhouse plants Book- 

 seller at Frankfort Dr. Wallace on Lilies Receipts Winter in 

 the country The sorting of old letters. 



November 1st. One of those most pleasant echoes of 

 my first book came to me to-day. I received a letter, 

 addressed to the care of my publisher, from a lady who was 

 so pleased with my commendation of her father's work 

 ( ' The Botanic Garden,' by B. Maund) that she kindly 

 asked to be allowed to send me, what I had long wished 

 to have, the five volumes of his second book, ' The Botanist ' 

 a gardening periodical which was published only for five 

 years, as the coloured illustrations were too costly to 

 be continued. The first number was issued in January 

 1825. It contains full-page illustrations of stove, green- 

 house, and new hardy plants new, that is, in 1825. I 

 have had it bound, and it is a great addition to my collec- 

 tion of flower-books. The original drawings were chiefly 

 made by Mrs. Withers, who was the first flower-painter 

 of that day. The title-page bears the following inscrip- 

 tion : 



' The Botanist : containing Accurately Coloured Figures 

 of Tender and Hardy Ornamental Plants, with Descriptions 

 Scientific and Popular, intended to convey both Moral and 

 Intellectual Gratification.' A quotation is added from 

 Sir J. B. Smith : * The World seems to have discovered 

 that nothing about which Infinite Wisdom has deigned to 



