XXIV THE HISTORY OF THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE 
eighteen plates. This is the same artist who drew and 
engraved some of the plates in the early volumes of the 
Botanical Magazine. In 1792 was published the first 
edition of the Florist’s Directory with plates, by James 
Maddock, a florist at Walworth. This edition is not in the 
Kew library, but an improved edition, by Samuel Curtis, 
in 1810, is interesting as giving an idea of what were in 
those days considered the best types of Anemone, Hyacinth, 
Ranunculus, Tulip, Auricula, Pink, Carnation, &c. "Thomas 
Martyn’s Flora Rustica, a work of four thin octavo volumes, 
containing coloured illustrations of “such plants as are 
either useful or injurious in husbandry,” by F. P. Nodder, 
botanic painter to her Majesty, appeared periodically from 
1792 to 1795. In 1794 Haworth issued the first of his 
writings on succulent plants, then very popular _and 
commonly cultivated. The roses of the period were depicted 
by Miss Mary Lawrence in a folio volume containing ninety 
plates. Richard Anthony Salisbury, concerning whom I[ 
shall have more to say further on, had a fine garden at 
Chapel Allerton, in Yorkshire, where he cultivated a large 
collection of plants, a catalogue of which, somewhat on the 
plan of Aiton’s Hortus Kewensis, he published in 1796, 
entitled Prodromus stirpium in Horto ad Chapel Allerton 
vigentium. The author’s annotated copy was purchased by 
the writer for Kew at a sale of Burchell’s books in 1866. 
The great blemish of this work is the substitution of new 
names for a large number of plants, on the ground that the 
old ones, from a variety of causes, were inappropriate, 
Next comes Andrews’s Botanists’ Repository, a rival of the 
Botanical Magazine, issued in parts, at half-a-crown each, 
from 1797 to 1812; the whole containing 664 coloured 
quarto plates of very unequal execution. A second edition 
was published in 1816, and the colouring of this generally 
is execrable, The drawing is usually fairly good, though 
not equal to some of this artist’s later work. Whether the 
first was better I am unable to decide at the time of writing. 
was apparently strongly supported by Lee and Kennedy, for 
he figured very many of their introductions from South 
Africa, Australia and elsewhere, 
