THE HISTORY OF THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE XXVIi 
and the showy Pyrus japonica, introduced by Sir Joseph 
Banks in 1796, flowered in Woodford’s garden in 1803. 
The twentieth volume (1804) contains several Australian 
plants, including the beautiful Bauera rubioides and the 
Banksia ericefolia (pl. 738). A very poor single variety of 
Dahlia coccinea (pl. 762) was imported from France and 
cultivated by Mr. Fraser, of Sloane Square. Knowltonia 
vesicatoria (pl. 775) reminds us of Sherard’s successfu 
gardener. In the same volume appears the first Oncidium 
(pl. 777) from Woodford’s garden, and insectivorous plants 
are present in Sarracenia flava and Dionza Muscipula. 
The first Epacris flowered by Colvill, of King’s Road, 
Chelsea, appears at plate 844. 
As it would obviously carry me too far if I examined 
each volume, even if | mentioned only two or three plants, 
I propose a leap of ten years, which brings us to the 
forty-third volume, and the year 1816. Meanwhile, I 
should mention, the magazine had become the property of 
Samuel Curtis, a florist of Walworth, and first cousin of 
William Curtis, whose only daughter he married. The 
name 8. Curtis first appears on the plates in January, 1811. 
Sydenham Edwards continued to act as sole artist up 
to 1815, when, owing to some misunderstanding, he severed 
his connection with the Botanical Magazine, and founded 
the Botanical Register. This defection must have been 
a serious loss to the Botanical Magazine, independently of 
the competition of another rival publication; for it is 
no easy matter to fill the place of a good botanical artist. I 
have no actual evidence that the circulation diminished, 
though there is little doubt that it must have, with the 
numerous competitors in the field alluded to a liitle further 
on. However, it is clear from the quality of the drawing 
and the lack of novelty in the subjects illustrated in the 
volumes immediately following, that both editor and 
publisher had to work under great difficulties. Taking the 
first volume of the new series (xliii. of the whole work), 
which contains the matter of two volumes of the latter part 
of the first series, we find it scarcely equal in interest 
to the very earliest volumes. With very few exceptions the 
plants are only of botanical interest, yet they are not 
botanically figured, that is to say, no botanical details are 
given. 
Passing to the forty-sixth volume, we find the plates 
in the latter part, beginning with 2079, signed “ J. Curtis” 
—who, as Dr. Albert Curtis informs me, was no relation of 
the founder of the Magazine. His contributions to the 
