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in paying particular attention to the place of every plant in the natural 

 system. Even when he is told the name of a plant, if he can learn from 

 his informer to what natural order it belongs, and the genus that comes 

 nearest to it in that order, the information will greatly assist the memory. 

 To read or hear of a plant called Dulgodia, leaves no impression on the 

 mind from which to imagine an idea of its appearance, or fix either the name 

 or the thing on the memory ; but if it is added, that it belongs to Irideae, 

 and is nearly related to Ixia, then the bulbous root, ensiform leaves, and 

 brilliant flowers, which it must necessarily have, are immediately called into 

 the mind's eye ; and Dulgodia, both as a word and thing, is associated with 

 Ixia, and fixed in the memory. 



The Jussieuean classification is recommended for the arrangement of bo- 

 tanical or scientific flower-gardens. 



" To facilitate arrangements of this kind, we have, in the disposition of the 

 genera, under the natural orders, added the number of hardy herbaceous 

 and ligneous plants to each genus. This will enable gardeners to proportion 

 the size of beds, groups, or other spaces to the number and size of the 

 hardy plants in each order. No mode hitherto devised, is so well calcu- 

 lated for communicating a taste and knowledge for plants as such an epi- 

 tome of vegetable nature. A taste for plants as parts of a grand whole or 

 system is of a much higher and more intellectual character, than a taste for 

 plants as showy or fragrant flowers, or as ornaments to gardens. No plan 

 is so well calculated to originate this taste, and promote its progress, as a 

 display of plants according to their natural affinities. So great will be the 

 additional interest and enjoyment afforded by the vegetable kingdom so dis- 

 played and studied, that we have little doubt the time will very soon arrive, 

 when every gentleman's seat will have its Systema naturae of plants in the 

 pleasure-ground, as it now has its library in the house. 



The kalendarial arrangement is given for the purpose of facilitating the 

 selection of ornamental plants for borders and shrubberies ; and partly also 

 to show the botanical riches of each month. From this division of the 

 work, the herbaceous plants, which in the column of popular character 

 are entitled weeds, culinary, agricultural, grasses, &c. are excluded. 



The plants of commerce and the implements, technical terms, fyc. are given 

 for the purpose of facilitating the intercourse between British and Foreign 

 cultivators. By means of these terms, the scientific names of plants which 

 are familiar to the principal gardeners of all countries, and a few verbs, and 

 other parts of speech, which may be acquired in a day or two, gardeners may 

 hold with gardeners a sort of verbal intercourse, sufficient for the ordinary 

 purposes of professional communication and commerce. 



The blank appendix is given for the purpose of enabling such cultivators, 

 or collectors of specimens, as adopt our enumeration, to add in manuscript 

 such additional species or varieties as are new or not found under the same 

 names in the foregoing parts of the catalogue. 



The enumeration of the species in one series to the end, is made with a re- 

 ference to two objects of considerable importance : 1st, to correspond with 

 a similar enumeration given in the Encyclopaedia of Plants ; and, 2dly, for 

 the purpose of registering plants in gardens. 



For effecting the latter purpose in the simplest and cheapest manner, the 

 improved mode of cutting numbers on sticks, invented by Mr. Seton, 

 (Enc. of Gard. § 1785.) is deserving the particular attention of the gar- 

 dener." (The mode is then described and illustrated by two engravings, after 

 which are given the following observations: — ) 



" One of the most judicious methods of registering the plants of a bota- 

 nical flower garden, in which there is a separate group or bed for each 

 natural order, is, to have th& name of the order or tribe painted on a label 



