тетте 
xiii 
EUNT NUR 
^ Curti к 
Арки, 9, 1887.] 
THE GARDE 
ENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
479 
“THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE.” 
(Continued "d p. 451.) 
HE FovN —Thi s William gites d kia 
at dioi, Hampshire, i in 1748, the son of а master 
London, a еше the 
apothecary's business ; but his botanical pursuits in- 
terfered so much with his professional duties that he 
was not very successful. He early acquired a taste 
ing his father’s at Alton 
named Johr fiet employed there, was У їп 
and Parkinson's Herbals.t Fro 
soon after some books of a mo 
came in his way, ans of which he laid the 
"ipsi of а а бен that brought him fame 
and fort 
rm "seen his medical practice to such an 
extent that it was worth little he eani of it, and 
dev oted himself entirely to botany. In 1773 he was 
or ed 
Demonstrator for near rly two years. g his 
term of office this gentleman seems to fite liberally 
supported the garden, for he presented nearly fifty 
chalk, gi 
ity o Iceland, presented A 
Joseph Banks, Esq., which materials being c 
sidered ien adequate bot the purpose it was un sape: 
taken, and the erection finished in the course of the 
1775.” 
Curtis held the office of ا‎ 79 Bot tany 
at Chelsea for about five у n his i 
literary and other avoc 
riou 
perry ulari ё them 
dsey, then in Lam- 
is ie a: finally at Brompton, where he had 
а "more salubrious and commodious spot.” The 
last he сп to cultivate up to his death.$ Full 
particulars of the scope and extent of Curtis’s garden 
re contained in Dr. Thornton’s memoir, from which 
: е already quoted. 16 was laid out in quarters: 
ne being de 
Жы Curtis's 
ctures on Botany as delivered in the Botanic Garden 
1 veu "verd s of the Botanic Maie at Chelsea, p. 81. 
» in Rees’ Cyclo; 
1 Ina her kA the Life and Writings oft the late Mr. William 
fln 5 ecd к - ты ма мо 1 sketch is more sympathetic 
ne states that this was continued and improved by 
ter Curtis'sdeath. This was William Salisbury, 
Hortus Paddingtonensis, or a catalogue o 
tivated in the garden of J. S 1s, Esq., of Pad- 
айн шы botanical and horti- 
ta person as Е 
aí Lambeth, FIRES hia vig were eet 
by his T Samuel Curtis, in 1806, 
second edition 
urtis's Meran ahd artistic activity was very 
great, but I must confine myself to е works 
bearing on the subject under consideratio In 
1771 he commenced the Flora Londinensis, a mde. 
-— ilustrated folio work, which almost ruined 
author, and was never completed. Nevertheless, 
а бан соп send extended Varia was ys 
by the late Sir William Hooker, between the yea 
1817 апа 1828. The Flora Londinensis was pigs in 
parts, and continued until 1787, which brings us 
down to the leading subject of this sketch. 
Tue FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE “ BOTANICAL 
MAGAZINE.” 
Though Curtis was unfortunate in his too ambitious 
Flora Londinensis, his project of an illustrated serial 
eived, 
I have not seen any 
pag to the a dici sufficiently explain 
si wor 
sign a ope o In the preface we are 
informed that the Fore Ba Magazine owed its com- 
г 5 
5 
a 
n 
e 
h 
work cee нар. Пу rade si author's 
warmest bi 
ropose now 01 aie the whole work in rapid re- 
view, touching upon the more remarkable events in 
flower gardenin g, and briefly зыр, eum Pont: 
cations in — ica -n gar- 
deners- hav n opport dus of P^ de «Жозе 
volumes I will first give e tit 
| THE 
BOTANICAL MAGAZINE ; 
OR, 
FLOWER-GARDEN DISPLAYED: 
in which 
THE MOST ORNAMENTAL FOREIGN PLANTS, CULTIVATED 
IN THE OPEN GROU GREEN-HOUSE, 
AND THE STOVE, WILL BE ACCURATELY REPRESENTED 
THEIR 
NATURAL COLOURS 
To which will be added 
HEIR N. ; ORDER, GENERIC 
AND SPECIFIC кл йрн ACCORDING TO THE 
RATED LINNAEUS; 
THEIR PLACES OF GROWTH AND TIMES OF FLOWERING : 
Together with 
THE MOST APPROVED METHODS OF CULTURE. 
A WORK 
Intended for the use of 
SUCH LADIES, GENTLEMEN, AND GARDENER 
AS WISH TO BECOME SCIENTIFICALLY ант 
WITH THE PLANTS THEY CUL 
1787 
First Peston, 1787 то 1800. 
During this period volumes i. to xiv. 
and it has been rm limited because the author died 
uly, 1799, at the — à arly y age o 
fift three, and while the magazine was still in its 
infancy. But this was not Curtis’s only essay with a 
pictorial octavo, for in 1792 he began issuing dimi- 
ree соран of his Flora Londinensi: ec 
ured figures of medicina) Low 
but it is asserted by 
k Considering the 
dates of E prego s statement is hardly 
correct. also states that Curtis's figures of medi- 
cinal plants formed. v foundation of Woodville's 
Medical E puis on better grounds 
Rees’ Cyclopedia: 
At the commencement each monthly number of 
the Botanical Magaz 
ine contained three coloured 
plates, and the price was an change was 
ade during the founder’s lifetime. All through 
he volumes t 
the year in which t 
e fi me appeared in 
1786 I have not been able to as decina, but 
half-a-dozen plates bear that date. 'The magazine 
became popular at once, and soon attained a monthly 
sale of , which was pee M mainta mo p 
Curtis’ decease. Many of the plates in 
volume, and most of those in r^ second are apte 
mous, & 
executed by Curtis him J 
те contribution is plate 12, a figure 
eon Meadia,t and after that his name is frequent. 
i e Edwards, another celebrated botanical 
draughtsman + t Rg 
second volum 
“Tartar,” а 
one of the very few florists’ flowers admitted in the 
pages of the magazine. Similarly, nearly all the 
plates of the volumes of this period, except the last, 
are anonymous ; but towards the end of the twelfth 
e whole of the thirteenth and fourteenth 
volumes the plates are by Edwards. For 
the chest, which almost incapacitat for 
ork of any kind; this would explain the ci = 
stance. i ; 
the late Professor Henslow that his 
ducted magaz rom plate 450 ‘until Dx 
became ibd 
he great EX of the pinta ügured Fis 
this period аге hardy European. and Eastern North 
American ; and Ta next in point of. b e Cape 
lants belonging to the genera Erica, Pelargonium, 
embryanth айо а few others. 
Scarcely any very s triking or noteworthy subjects 
peared, and new species, such Diosma serrati- 
olia, plate 456, were exceedingly rare; in fact, there 
justi ion f assertion, to 
t 
am i ну, which was sent to the a Islands 
ure plants E the Bread-fruit tree for cultivation 
t Indi Ho and a few others were 
islands that they did not I hesitate vene Sor 
in Pitcairn Island (where some of t ir dese mae 
still live), уыш one of the most Soci Py episodes. 
in the history of ex xpedition Booths раро 
the cultivation of the vegetal 
extending t 
of distant Sep however, subseauent 
eeded w chew ship Providence in g living 
Le to the Wi 
est Indies, and evesitadlly ла tained 
rank of Rear-Adm miral. P 
he Marquis of Bute and 
De Lettso u rons of horticu еге 
and of the Flora Londinensis, in бак ыг i 
Curtis dedicated to them the two T" that а ый 
peared. JW. 
rer be continued.) 
* Thornton states that Curtis could both draw and engrave 
and was rese able to superintend the work of the artist, 
he wA oyed. 
Bs s not generally known that this specific 
mally proposed as a E gree by Catesby, m Dr. e Rory 
Phys sician to George ki vk ain 
Í Dr. Albert Curtis, m Sta “descendant al 
William Curtis, to whom I am риги е for all o f the previ 
unpublished particulars of t! the family a, a "v sete 
sends me the following note :—* I belie ve Curtis, th 
+" 
lmas 
for drawing, and had sent up ќа 
hi 
$ Thomas Curtis, one of three ila of the botanist, 
according to Dr. A. Curtis. 
