THE HISTORY OF THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE xlix 
was undoubtedly the Botanical Register, which appeared 
regularly up to the end of 1847, and contained figures of a 
large number of Lindley’s favourite family, the Orchidacee. 
Robert Sweet added, in 1827, another to the already 
considerable list of his serial publications under the title of 
flora Australasica ; ov a Selection of Handsome or Curious 
Plants, Natives of New Holland and the South Sea Islands. 
E. D. Smith, F.L.S., was the artist. The octavo plates are 
fairly good, and there is an attempt at dissections, but most 
of the planis represented had been previously figured. 
There are fifty-six plates dated 1827 and 1828. In 1828, 
Roscoe’s handsome folio of 112 plates of Monandrian Plants 
of the Order Scitaminee was published. Most of the plates 
were drawn from subjects cultivated in the Liverpool 
Botanic Garden, where, at that period, there must have 
been a fine collection of these highly ornamental plants, 
George Johnson’s History of Gardening appeared in 1829, 
and, though imperfect in some details, is a most useful and 
interesting book, which no gardener should lose an oppor- 
tunity of adding to his library. A very fine and rare illus- 
trated folio work of this period is A Selection of Hexandrian 
Plants belonging to the Natural Orders Amaryllidacee and 
Liliacee. The drawings, fifty-one in number, were by Mrs. 
Edward Bury, and they were engraved and published by R. 
Havell, London. The drawing and colouring of these plates 
is alike admirable, and Pritzel describes the work as “ opus 
splendidissimum,” &c.; but he is wrong in his statement 
that the plates were drawn from plants grown in the Edin- 
burgh garden. Mrs. Bury acknowledges her obligations 
to the Shepherds of Liverpool, also to W. Roscoe and 
W. Harrison of the same place; and it is clear that the 
Liverpool gardens were the principal source on which 
the artist depended. ‘The work was issued in fascicles 
from 1831—1834, price ten guineas each. In 1831 the 
Horticultural Register and General Magazine was launched, 
under the joint editorship of Joseph Paxton and Joseph 
Harrison. There were no coloured plates in the first 
volume (1831—1832), and very few in the second (1833), 
which was edited by Paxton alone. The same year 
Harrison started his Floricultwral Cabinet and Florists’ 
Magazine, and he boasts in the preface of a “ circulation of 
nearly 50,000 copies, during the nine months of our literary 
existence.” Harrison was gardener to Lord Wharncliffe, at 
Wortley Hall, and his venture seems to have been a decided 
success, and was continued down to 1859, and subsequently 
under the title of the Gardeners’ Weekly ——- and 
