THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
671 
Я ве Asin the other —€— the leaves are pro- 
aded. The n: in ^ 
ted by about a doze 
aaa being dull aaa 
1 and purple, le clothed with crystalline 
hairs, and the under-surface rose-coloured. 
is a native of gri Kong, and is figured in the 
nical чаш . 6851, under the name of 
pulchella 
DENDROBIUM UNDULATUM. 
E fine Australian Orchid is one of the most 
те emarkable members of the genus, and is certainly 
very handsome. А fine drooping raceme just to 
nd measures 16 inches in length and bears thirty 
LET. ki E +1 in nerfaction 
2 о 4 
measure 2 inches across, the colour being a 
and the Eus mene 
Unfortunately, it is 
limited. 
| plan with its large 
roo ing racemes would be a Mab sight. 
1 HE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE." 
ame S. Curtis first appears on 
Jauuary, 1811. Sydenham Edwards 
inued to act as sole artist up 1815, when, 
to severed 
а good botanical artist. Ihave no actual evidence 
ow ipie diminished, though there is little 
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Wever, it is clear from the quality of the draw wing 
Ì the lack of novelty in the iau illustrated in 
* volumes immediately following, that both 
isher 
E work), ion ч ан 
“er of two volumes of the lat 0 
ены, we find it scarcely equal in үч to the 
earliest volumes. With v very few exceptions 
its are only of betanical interest, yet they are 
E Е that is to вау, no botanical 
а ing to the e forty-sixth volume, we find the 
m in M latter re beginning with 2079, 
; including А. C. vices 
uel, and the mother of Dr. Albe 
ces contributed a few plates, and we find 
com К. Greville, and others. 
iter surprise, the names of Sydenham 
erby, of whom were 
the forty-ninth volume : 
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2328 by Sowerby, and 2346 by Edwards. There are 
several plates from drawings made by Edwards early 
in the ry; the last I have detected being 
Daviesia acicularis (2679), published in 1826. Plate 
2683 (Hesperis — was drawn by J. Sowerby, 
and the letterpre mpanying it, including 
generic and specife ch characters, атан bos ten же 
һапа, апа, dues sposi it suddenly far outshone the 
glory of any period of its previous existence. Dean 
Herbert furnished ovd and letterpress for an 
entire part, ik sea equals if it does not Surpass кпу- 
thing th 
had lost the i services p^ Seha Edwards. Then 
on plate 2 with the ini itials 
Wid H.— William plia Hooker! This event 
үгезе the beginning of a new and flourishing ua 
n botany and horticulture, the history of whic 
ione to = next period. 
Bare mention ae eg made of Sir Joseph Banks' 
{#тойасойн їп r gardens. He and Solander, 
with Captain i ook. landed i in Botany Bay, New South 
Wales in 1770. George Caley, a botanical collector, 
was subsequently supported by Banks during a ten 
Hio е there. Menzies, who was attached 
Vancouvers expedition, collected in Western 
үре. Ae other parts of the world some twenty 
years later. То them кй Robert Brown, 
“ Botanicorum facile Princeps,” ompanied 
Flinders, leaving England in 1801, and returning in 
with immense pge naas of dried m almost 
к. Aus li Through him English 
gar greatly Ба vài LA dirais 
me pi such as could be raised from seed ; 
and, as we Daie from the €: edition of Aiton's 
ortus ensis, Peter cceeded in intro- 
ducing ees West Australian jane about the same 
date. 
Nevertheless, what had been cresce in ins 
direction was merely a foretaste of what was to com 
and was the incentive to further Аче In 1814, 
when the political horizon looked clearer, гз and 
Banks induced the Government to sanc =: 
proposal to send Allan Cunningham | Jim 
Bowie to the ртг hemisphere as beta cl 
ectors. After spending nearly 2: o years in Braz 
Bole proceeded to the С f Good pe, m 
Cunningham to New South Wales,* where he met 
with Charles Fraser, another labourer in the same 
fi 
ld. 
e t of € азер efforts of these and 
hard-wooded plants, the latter of the ord 
"tria ийре Meye °ч nm. sa, Myris 
Rutac and The ha arb 
Чор. inris de "puli: and occupied a pro- 
minent place in most gardens of any pretension down 
to about the year 1860. 
KINDRED ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM 1801 то 1826.t 
в shown that towards the end of this 
since its foundation 
ing fall or . 
dining win rs apparent pais what follows. 
flower gar- 
The 
pat "eta the impression ‘‘ Vol. I., 
karen i = the project was a failure. So far as it goesit i is very: 
res were prepa rom drawings made in Aus-’ 
ere in cultivation at the 
ime, among \ 
iosissima), of which the Clifford, of Nyn 
Hall, nea: et, 5 
in a previou 
hes in t the Gar 
H 
preceded x Gardeners’ and Florists’ Dictiona 
brad k of % volumes, which T in 1724, aw 
n көлми e Gardeners' Dictionary, 
loss of Sydenham Edwards, the artist, coupled 
with the 
establishments, and rival publications for a time took 
e lead. 
Francis Bauer, an Austrian, and brother of ЖО. 
папа Bauer, the artist of Sibthorp’s magnifi 
Flora Greca, as well as of Flinder's Popaj to ун 
tralia, was inted botanical painter to the King 
at Kew towards the end of 
and perhaps never excelled. Franci w 
intimately connected with horticu s first 
rk was Delineations of Exotic Pianis, cultivated in 
the Royal ак The date оп the title-page 
arge 
size, and the figures are all of Heaths. 
thirty plates were Ehe rn m of the дыт 
drawings аге Ke Another work 
by the same te is "the Strelitzia Depicta, реше 
ing of four neris plates, the original price of whic 
was m т . Later, in conjunction gs fum 
Fra uer published (1830-8) of 
тоннан repr Orchidaceous Plants, but Фа» "chiefly 
represent the structure of the parts ofthe 
ecti ith the Bo it а 
several illustrated serials running at the same time. 
These were his Coloured. Engravings of d t com- 
menced in 1796; his Heathery, commenced i 
his Roses, commenced in 1805; hi 
commenced in 1805; and his Repository: us 
concurrent publications. 
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coloured plates, and as man let 
view of a semi-span-roofed Heath- riia with a 
background of trees, forms a frontispiece to the first 
volume. 
seem to have taken the lead. Not less 
erym 
interesting are the Roses and Geraniums of the 
period (Pelargoniums). former there are 129, 
and of the latter e 
Of the 
124 plates, all of quarto size. 
Roses are si 
ub 
s on succulent and other 
rs. Henrietta M, 
o wrote several NEN 
containi 
octavo coloured plates of green 
from Nature. W. B. Hemsley. 
(To be continued.) 
. NICOTIANA | GLAUCA.— Flowers of this species 
were shown by Mr. J. Harris Stone, at the Linnean 
Society, May 5; do ese had been gathered in Fuer- 
teventura and Lanzarotte islands of the Canary 
group. N. glauca belongs to Buenos Ayres, where it 
grows to 10 feet high; and it seems to have acci- 
dentally got i, idi into the Canaries about 
ecd Since un nt em eee aem has run 
14, and becom eed, flourishing abun- 
danti. in the village reu and bypeths, though 
not attaining a height above 4 or 5 fi il The 
са ‘ 
native: it “Mismo ” (same) ; i they m to 
— м pete up everywhere in the т id 
the в 
* Guide to the Literature of Botany 
r, James Britten informs me that е Was a son-in* 
law of Kennedy, of the firm of Lee & Ken 
