THE HISTORY OF THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE XXX1 
Sydenham Edwards gave the world his New Botanic Garden 
—a quarto containing sixty coloured plates, each illustrat- 
ing two plants; also issued as the New Flora Britannica. 
The same plates had previously been used to illustrate 
Macdonald’s Complete Dictionary of Practical Gardening, 
1807. This was followed in 1815 by the Botanical Register, 
in the foundation of which Edwards had the assistance of 
Ker, who had also been a valuable contributor to the 
Magazine ; and for the remainder of this period the rival 
excelled the older publication. Edwards died in 1822, and 
was succeeded by M. Hart; and as early as 1823 (pl. 748), 
the initials J. L. (John Lindley) occur, though his name 
does not appear on the titie-page till 1829. With the 
powerful support of Lindley, the success of the Botanical 
Register was assured, and it was continued by the same 
editor until 1847, when it ceased altogether. Lindley him- 
self was a good draughtsman, and occasionally contributed 
drawings ; but after 1831 Miss Drake, who illustrated so 
many of Lindley’s works, was the chief artist. Here and 
there we find the name of Mrs. Withers, who was also an 
accomplished artist. Altogether 2702 plates appeared in 
the Register, though unfortunately they were separately 
numbered in every volume after 1837. _ 
Loddiges, the renowned nurserymen of Hackney, started 
their Botanical Cabinet in 1818, and it extended to twenty 
volumes and 2000 plates. The figures are usually neat 
and often pretty ; but the work has not the slightest claim 
to the title “botanical.” The letterpress is exceedingly 
meagre, and largely impregnated with pious ejaculations 
and admonitions. 
In 1819 our Samuel Curtis published a Monograph of the 
(renus Camellia, There are five very large folio plates, each 
containing several varieties, drawn by Clara Maria Pope. 
From this work we learn that Lee and Kennedy had 
flowered twenty-five varieties of Camellia. Bound up in 
the same volume (from the library of the late Sir William 
Hooker) are two coloured engravings of Dahlias, apparently 
by the same artist, but undated, and perhaps unpublished. 
About twenty varieties are represented, and I mention them 
because they are just what we have recently returned to, 
namely, single, and the so-called Cactus varieties. In the 
same volume, too, is a fine original painting of the gorgeous 
Australian Doryanthes excelsa, which flowered in 1826 at 
Woodhall, Lanark, the seat of F. Campbell, Esq. 
Lindley’s activity in horticultural literature began in 
1820, with a monograph of the species of Rose (Rosarum 
