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called beautiful. The true beauty of plants, as of every thino- 

 else, lies in the mind ; and by the natural system this is culti- 

 vated to the utmost. 



Those who have not a garden, or who cannot afford to 

 purchase living plants, may yet be enabled to procure from 

 their friends, or to purchase from botanical collectors, dried 

 specimens. Rather than accumulate a great number of these 

 at random, we would recommend selection with a view to the 

 illustration of the natural orders. Such specimens may either 

 be kept in drawers, or in volumes done up in Mr. Toward's 

 manner. (Vol. IV. p. 468.) Plates IL VI. and VII. of our 

 Illustrations of Landscape-Gardening are calculated to show 

 what ought to be the comparative size of the drawers, or of 

 the divisions, or of a volume, for each order, so as to preserve 

 a due proportion between the orders, as to their relative ex- 

 tent, and of their extent relatively to the number of specimens 

 procurable in Britain. We may, probably, in a future Num- 

 ber, give apian for a system of drawers and a volume, on the 

 smallest scale : in the meantime, Mr. Stephen V^atts, joiner, 

 Kensington Gravel Pits, London, knows how to form a system 

 of drawers ; and Mr. Bayley, bookbinder and stationer there, 

 to prepare a volume or volumes for a Hortus Siccus. The 

 prices of both these tradesmen are moderate. 



In future Numbers we shall give plans of miniature natural 

 systems for suburban gardens ; for flower-gardens to country 

 residences ; for shrubberies round kitchen-gardens ; and for 

 pleasure-grounds. In the meantime, we invite all ingenious 

 gardeners to lend us their assistance, and to show that they 

 understand what we mean, by furnishing plans themselves, and 

 thus abridging our labour. 



The names of the plants in the table are given from our 

 Hortus Britannicus^ and the original authorities for them will 

 be there found. 



The first column in the following table contains the names 

 of hardy herbaceous plants, and of such hardy ligneous 

 plants as do not exceed 2 ft. in length ; and may, therefore, 

 be introduced into a herbaceous arrangement. The number 

 of orders so exemplified is 114 ; of orders and tribes, 260. 



" The second column contains the names of hardy trees and 

 shrubs above 2 ft. in height, exemplifying 36 orders not 

 exemplified in the first column; and 58 orders and tribes 

 also not there exemplified. 



The third column contains the names of green-house and 

 frame plants ; ligneous or herbaceous, exemplifying 33 

 orders, and 64 orders and tribes not exemplified in the two 

 preceding columns. 



