48 Garden Botany. 



7. Cistinece. The Natural Order of Cistus or Rock Rose. By 

 Robert Sweet, F.L.S. 3 Nos. 8vo. 1825. Ridgway, London. 



8. Flora Conspicua ; a Selection of the most ornamental, flow- 

 ering, hardy, exotic, and indigenous Trees, Shrubs, and herbaceous 

 Plants for embellishing Floiver Gardens and Pleasure Grounds. 

 By Richard Morris, F.L.S. Drawn and engravedfrom living 

 Specimens, by Wm. Clark. 6 Nos. 8vo. 1825. Smith, Elder, 

 & Co., London. 



9. The Botanic Garden ; or Magazine of hardy Flower Plants 

 cultivated in Great Britain, each number containing Four coloured 

 Figures. By B. Maund. Nos. 1 — 7. Small 4to. Baldwin, 

 Cradock, & Joy. 



It is our purpose, under this head, to lay before the public, 

 regularly, an analytical and critical account of such periodi- 

 cal publications, upon the subject of Garden Botany, as are of 

 sufficient importance to deserve attention. In order to fix a 

 definite period from which our observations may be com- 

 menced, we have determined to take the 1st January 1826, 

 the day of the birth of this Magazine ; and to occupy in our 

 first Number the space hereafter to be devoted to detailed cri- 

 ticism, with some account of gardening throughout Europe at 

 the present clay, as far as it exercises any influence upon bo- 

 tanical pursuits. 



France, which may be truly called the cradle of science, has 

 long been celebrated for the number and importance of her 

 public botanical institutions, and for the deep interest her 

 government has taken in the prosecution of every department 

 of Natural History. From the days of Tournefort, there has 

 scarcely been an expedition of discovery undertaken, to which 

 a botanist has not been attached, with ample means of prose- 

 cuting his pursuits. Resident botanists and collectors have 

 been placed in every colony belonging to the French govern- 

 ment, whose foreign possessions have scarcely been less assi- 

 duously investigated than its provinces at home. The voyages 

 of Commerson, of Michaux, of Olivier, of Labillardiere, of 

 Du Petit Thouars, of Leschenault, of Bory de St. Vincent, and 

 of a host of other scientific travellers, and the large collections 

 formed by Dombey, Aublet, and others of less note, have sup- 

 plied the French botanists with stores of knowledge more 

 ample than have been possessed in almost any other country. 

 The importance of these is shown by the extent of the advan- 

 tage derived to the French botanists by the acquisition of 



