XXX THE HISTORY OF THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE 
In 1804-5 appeared Sir J. E. Smith’s Hvotic Botany, 
the coloured figures by James Sowerby. It is on quite the 
same plan as the Botanical Magazine, and the quality of 
both plates and letterpress is superior to the Magazine of the 
same date; yet it only reached two volumes of sixty plates 
each. The plants figured form a very interesting selection, 
largely Australian, with an infusion of Scitaminex, or 
monandrous plants, as they were commonly called. Most of 
the plants were in cultivation at the time, but figures of 
others specially worthy of introduction are given. Thus 
Epacris longiflora (pl. 39), concerning which Smith observes : 
—* No species of Epacris has yet been raised in England; 
but surely the annexed plate will excite cultivators to 
endeavour to obtain some of the seeds.” Two years later 
the same species was figured in the Botanical Magazine (pl. 
982), from a plant grown by Loddiges. Plate 41 is a repre- 
sentation of the Australian Drosera peltata, which the 
author says there was scarcely any hope of seeing cultivated, 
though he would not despair, for twenty years before there 
was as little hope of seeing a flourishing Kpidendrum in the 
gardens of Europe, though at the time of writing many of 
the tribe had become familiar. 
In 1805 the first part of the Paradisus Londinensis 
appeared, and it was continued until 1808, reaching 117 
plates. William Hooker, a pupil of Francis Bauer, was the 
artist, and R. A. Salisbury wrote the descriptions. Hooker 
was a clever artist, and was subsequently engaged by the 
Horticultural Society, contributing the excellent plates 
which adorn the earlier volumes of the Transactions of the 
Society.’ He resided at Kew, and there is an interesting 
memorial of him in the collection of drawings in the Herb- 
arium. It is a large coloured drawing of a branch of a 
Peach tree, bearing both Peaches and Nectarines, from the 
garden of Mr. Gilpin, at East Sheen. The genuineness of 
the drawing is attested by the signatures of two Witnesses, 
and the circumstance is alluded to by Salisbury in the first 
volume of the Transactions of the Horticultural Society. 
The second edition of the Hortus Kewensis, consisting of 
five volumes, was published from 1810 to 1813. Tt was 
edited by William Aiton, and a large portion of the 
descriptive matter was contributed by Dryander and Robert 
rown. 
In 1812, while still connected with the Botanical M agazine, 
‘ Johnson (A History of English Gardening, p. 284) attributes this 
artist’s Pomona Londinensis to William Jackson Hooker, 
