THE HISTORY OF THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE lili 
There now remain for notice the works bearing on horti- 
culture of the late Sir William Hooker, but I can do little 
more than name them. Firstly, there are the various 
Journals, which, although they have botanical titles, contain 
an immense amount of information interesting to the horti- 
culturist. Consequent on the similarity of the titles of the 
different series they are often confounded by writers who 
are unaware of the existence of several different ones bearing 
similar titles, and I therefore give them more in detail than 
would otherwise be necessary. They begin with the 
Botanical Miscellany, containing figures and descriptions of 
such plants as recommend themselves by their novelty, 
rarity, or history, &c.; three volumes, 1830—1833, with 
112 plain and forty-one coloured plates. Next comes the 
Journal of Botany, being a second series of the Botanical 
Miscellany; four volumes, 1834—1842, with a varying 
number of plates, partly plain and partly coloured, in the 
different volumes. This was followed by the London Journal 
of Botany, consisting of seven volumes, dating from 1844— 
1848, with about twenty-four plates in each volume. The 
Companion to the Botanical Magazine, two volumes, 1835— 
1836, has already been mentioned. The last of the series is 
the Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany, nine 
volumes, 1849—1857. Among Hooker’s other works 
specially interesting to Horticulturists are several illus- 
trating Ferns, such as Filices Erotice .... cultivated at 
Kew, 1859, a hundred coloured plates; A Century of Ferns, 
1854, a hundred coloured plates; a second Century of Ferns, 
parts 1 and 2, 1860, fifty plates; British Ferns, 1861, sixty- 
six coloured plates; Garden Ferns, 1862, sixty-four coloured 
plates. In 1846 he published A Century of Orchidaceous 
Plants, selected from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine; anc 
Bateman commenced a second Century from the same source 
in 1864, W.H. Fitch was the artist of nearly all the plates 
in these publications. 
I have already alluded to Sir Joseph Hooker’s labours in 
connection with horticulture when speaking of the introduc- 
tion of the Himalayan Rhododendrons. During the latter half 
of this long period—that is to say, from 1844 onwards—he 
made some very important contributions to botanical litera- 
ture, and at the same time, one might say, to a knowledge 
of plants desirable for cultivation either on account of their 
beauty or their utility. He was naturalist to Sir James 
Ross’s Antarctic Expedition, and the result was six quarto 
volumes on the Flora of the Southern Hemisphere, with 
numerous coloured illustrations by W. H. Fitch. First 
