THE HISTORY OF THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE XX1X 
second edition of Aiton’s Hortus Kewensis, Peter Good 
succeeded in introducing many West Australian plants 
about the same date. 
Nevertheless, what had been accomplished in this direction 
was merely a foretaste of what was to come, and was 
the incentive to further exertions. In 1814, when the 
political horizon looked clearer, Aiton and Banks induced 
the Government to sanction their proposal to send Allan 
Cunningham and James Bowie to the southern hemisphere 
as botanical collectors. After spending nearly two years in 
Brazil, Bowie proceeded to the Cape of Good Hope, and 
Cunningham to New South Wales, where he met with 
Charles Fraser, another labourer in the same field. 
The result of the combined efforts of these and other con- 
temporaneous and previous collectors was, as already pointed 
out, a deluge of bulbous and hard-wooded plants, the latter 
of the orders Ericacexe, Epacridex, Proteacex, Leguminos», 
Myrtacex, Rutacee, and various others. The hard-wooded 
clement survived the bulbous, and occupied a prominent 
place in most gardens of any pretension down to about the 
year 1860. 
Kiyprep Encriish LIrerRATURE FROM 1801 To 1826. 
I have shown that towards the end of this period the 
Botanical Magazine had ebbed its lowest since its foundation. 
That this was not due to a corresponding fall or stagnation 
in flower gardening will be apparent from what follows. 
The loss of Sydenham Edwards, the artist, coupled with the 
great age of Dr. Sims, the editor, would be sufficient to 
account for its decay ; but it also lacked the support of the 
leading horticultural establishments, and rival publications 
for a time took the lead. 
Francis Bauer, an Austrian, and brother of Ferdinand 
Bauer, the artist of Sibthorp’s magnificent Flora Greca, 
as well as of Flinder’s Voyage to Australia, was appointed 
botanical painter tothe King at Kew, towards the end of 
the Jast century ; and the work of these two artists has rarely 
been equalled, and perhaps never excelled. Francis alone 
was intimately connected with horticulture. His first work 
was Delineations of Exotic Plants, cultivated in the Royal 
Gardens, Kew. The date on the ‘title-page of this book is 
1796, but on the authority of Pritzel it was issued at 
intervals from 1791 to 1800, while Daydon Jackson gives 
the dates as 1793 to 1801.1 
' Guide to the Interature of Botany. 
