XXXV1 THE HISTORY OF THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE 
upwards of 2,500 of the plates already published in the 
Magazine.” 
The same year that Fitch commenced drawing for the 
Magazine the honour of knighthood was conferred on the 
editor, the elder Hooker, in recognition of the great services 
he had rendered to botany. 
In other respects the sixty-third volume of the Botanical 
Magazine is a noteworthy one. It contains evidence of the 
rapid extension of Orchid culture and an index to the 
previous nine volumes. Plate 3530 (Ribes speciosum) was 
drawn by William Curtis, a son of Samuel, who is still 
living with his sister in Jersey. The sixty-fourth volume 
is dedicated to James Bateman, Esq., of Knypersley Hall, 
Cheshire, author of the magnificent Orchidacee of Mexico 
and Guatemala, and an illustrated Monograph of Odontoglos- 
sum, and, after Cattley, one of the earliest private growers 
of Orchids on a large scale. His collection was greatly en- 
riched by George Ure-Skinner, who sent his first consign- 
ment of Orchids from Guatemala in 1835.’ Twenty of the 
figures in this volume are of Orchids, and the imme- 
diately succeeding volumes contain a larger proportion. 
The first Odontoglossum (O. bictoniense) that reached 
England alive, as I learn from Bateman’s Monograph, is 
figured on plate 3812, where it bears the name Zygopetalum 
africanum, given owing to an error as to its origin. This 
was one of Skinner’s numerous introductions, 
The sixty-eighth volume of the Magazine is dedicated 
to Mrs. Lawrence, of Ealing Park, the mother of Sir Trevor 
Lawrence, and one of the most ardent horticulturists of her 
day. Meanwhile, in 1841, Sir William Hooker had been 
appointed Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew. 
NortH AMERICAN ANNUAL PLANTS. 
To Thomas Drummond and David Douglas (both of whom 
lost their lives in the pursuit of Flora) belong, in a very 
large measure, the honour and fame of introducing into 
Knglish gardens the lovely annuals of the Southern and more 
particularly of the South-western regions of North America. 
Going back to plate 3441 (1835) we see a beautiful repre- 
sentation of a very dark variety of the charmingly variable 
Phlox Drummondi. Quickly following on this, come Gilia 
tricolor (pl. 3463), Coreopsis diversifolia (pl. 3474), Nemo- 
phila insignis (pl. 3485), Collinsia bicolor (pl. 3488), 
: Mr. Bateman estimated that at least 300 species new to gardens 
were introduced in 1837, chiefly from Mexico and Guatemala. 
