lii THE HISTORY OF THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE 
Journal was started under the editorship of R. Marnock., In 
form it is very similar to the Gardeners’ Chronicle of the same 
date, and what looks very much as though it was intended 
as an inducement to purchasers, is the statement on the 
heading of each number that the profits were to be devoted 
to the relief of aged and indigent gardeners and farm 
bailiffs, their widows, and orphans. This promise seems to 
have been withdrawn in 1850, and the latest volume I have 
seen is dated 1851. 
In January, 1850, appeared the first number of the 
Gardeners’ Magazine of Botany, Horticulture, and Floricul- 
twre, conducted by Thomas Moore and William P. Ayres, 
and intended by its promoters to take the place of Paxton’s 
Magazine of Botany. The illustrations are good, and the 
letterpress equally so; yet it only reached three volumes, 
and was to have been replaced by a cheaper publication 
called the Companion to the Flower Garden, but 1 doubt 
whether this plan was realized.’ Paxton’s Flower Garden, 
by Paxton and Lindley, was also launched in 1850, and 
doubtless proved a formidable rival to Moore’s Magazine of 
Botany. This also is a quarto, and only reached three 
volumes, containing 108 excellent coloured plates by L. 
Constans, and 314 effective woodcuts.2 The Cottage 
Gardener was founded by George Johnson, the author of 
the History of Gardening, in 1848, and is still continued 
under the title of the Journal of Horticulture ; and the 
Gardeners Magazine, edited by Shirley Hibberd, followed 
in 18538. During the troublous period embracing the 
Russian War and the Indian Mutiny, literary enterprise 
was smothered; but the late Mr. Noel Humphreys com- 
menced a Gallery of Exotic Flowers in 1855, of which, how- 
ever, only one part of four plates appeared. In 1861 the 
Floral Magazine was started, with Thomas Moore as editor, 
and W. H. Fitch as artist, and, with various changes of 
editor and artist, it was continued down to 1881, and con- 
tains upwards of 1,000 fine quarto plates of garden plants. 
Orchids becoming more and more a specialty, Warner 
commenced the publication of his Select Orchidaceous Plants 
in 1862, Bateman his Monograph of the Genus Odontoglossum 
in 1864, and these have been succeeded by various expen- 
sive publications of the same class, Both at home and abroad. 
* Since the above was written, Mr. W. E. Gumbleton has kindly 
informed me, through the Gardeners’ Chronicle, that one volume, and 
one only, was published, and that in 1852. 
* A second edition of this, published in 1880, should not be confused 
with the original issue. 
