THE HISTORY OF THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE XXXiil 
Collectors were sent to various parts of the world, among 
them J. Don to West Africa; J. Forbes, to East Africa ; 
J. Potts and J. Parks, to China and Brazil; J. MacRae, to 
the Sandwich Islands; and David Douglas, to North 
America. The garden at Chiswick was established, and 
Douglas’s mission to North America was particularly 
successful, 
THIRD PERIOD: 1827—1864. 
Sir Witi1aAm Hooker. 
We have now reached an exceedingly active period in 
English gardening generally, and in flower gardening par- 
ticularly. Intimately connected with the latter was a 
simultaneous advance in systematic and geographical 
botany. Promoters and practitioners of the three cognate 
branches of knowledge were numerous ; yet it is not unfair 
to the whole body of them to assert that the extraordinary 
developments of the time in this country were very largely 
due to the exertions of two remarkable men—I mean 
Sir William Hooker and Dr. Lindley. 
oth of these men possessed unusual capacity for work, 
combined with administrative and organizing talents of no 
mean degree. When Sir William undertook the post of 
editor of the Botanical Magazine, Samuel Curtis was still 
the proprietor and nominal “ Conductor” of it ; and at that 
date there were in existence no fewer than ten English 
serial publications, illustrating in colours the cultivated 
plants of English gardens. Therefore it was no easy task to 
resuscitate one in such an advanced stage of decay as he 
found the Magazine, and it was only a person of great 
resources that could have accomplished it. 
As already mentioned, Hooker at once discontinued his 
Hxotic Flova, and threw his whole energies into the older 
periodical. Although his name appears on the title-page as 
the author of the descriptions only, he was actually the artist 
as well, acting in this double capacity for ten years ; and it 
is not too much to say that he was unequalled as a botanical 
draughtsman. He had a clean, finished style, peculiarly his 
own; and he succeeded in obtaining the service of colourists 
of abilities rarely met with at the present day. A glance at 
the few plates he contributed to the end of the fifty-third 
volume will be sufficient to convinee anybody of the accuracy 
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