] THE HISTORY OF THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE 
Floricultural Cabinet. It contains much that is of interest 
to the florist. James Main, A.L.S., succeeded Paxton in 
the editorship of the Mloricultural Register after the third 
volume ; whether this work ceased with the sixth volume, 
the latest in the Kew library, [am unable to say. In 1836, 
Robert Marnock, curator of the Botanical and Horticultural 
Gardens, Sheffield, and subsequently more famous as a land- 
scape gardener, appeared before the public in the capacity 
of editor of The Floricultural Cabinet and Miscellany of 
Gardening, of which there are four volumes at Kew, ending 
in 1840, when the editor had removed to Hackney. This, in 
conjunction with Harrison’s, contains figures,-and a great 
deal concerning the history, of florists’ flowers, Paxton, 
having freed himself from the Horticultwral Register, com- 
menced the publication of his Magazine of Botany and 
Register of Flowering Plants in 1834, and continued it till 
1849. It consists of sixteen volumes octavo, and contains 
768 coloured plates, with occasional woodcuts, and a valuable 
series of articles on practical operations in gardening by the 
leading gardeners of the day. From a horticultural stand- 
point the plates are mostly good, though the colouring is 
sometimes poor. I. W. Smith was the principal artist for 
the first three or four volumes, and then 8. Holden succeeded, 
and continued to the end, evidently improving with experi- 
ence. The same Frederick W. Smith was artist, and 
apparently editor, of the Florists’ Magazine: a Register of 
the Newest and most Beautiful Varieties of Florists’ Flowers. 
This is a folio of one volume, containing seventy-two coloured 
plates, and was published in 1836. I had forgotten to 
mention Loudon’s colossal Hncyclopedia of Plants, with 
woodcut figures of nearly 10,000 species, which appeared 
in 1829. Dr. Lindley contributed the botanical descriptions, 
and J. D. C. Sowerby the drawings, which were engrave 
by R. Branston. There were several supplements, a second 
edition in 1841, and a third in 1866, “ barely differing from 
the second.” In 1837 was published Dean Herbert’s 
Amaryllidacee, an octavo with forty-eight plates, of which 
there was a coloured and an uncoloured edition. This book 
is dedicated to Leopold, King of the Belgians, and contains 
an interesting dissertation on hybrid plants. Knowles and 
Westcott’s Floral Cabinet and Magazine of Haxotic Botany, 
consisting of three quarto volumes, containing 137 coloured 
plates, was published from 1837 to 1840. The avowed 
object of this work was “ to furnish the public with more 
artistic and more finished representations of plants than 
were to be found in the numerous periodicals of the day.” 
