238 Address of Prof. DeCandolile 
Botanical Cabinet,” “Sweet’s British Flower Garden,” ‘ Paxton’s 
Magazine and Flower Garden,” and other English journals; but 
what a number of forms are thus fixed by the engravings in 
these books, and what a fund of valuable documents for consult- 
ation they afford. One must admire the “ Botanical Magazine,” 
eommenced in 1793, continued from month to month with an 
exemplary regularity, and which is now at its 5580th plate. 
Not only has it always represented rare and new species, but it 
has ever been conducted on a simple and uniform plan, whick 
renders it convenient to consult. 
beautiful establishment at Kew, w 
pa of the indefatigable activi : 
uastly, if we ask the origin of the garden of the Royal Horti- 
cultural Society at Kensington, we are told it is only a develop- 
_ The names of Sir William Hooker and of Dr. Lindley, thanks 
® Since these lines were in the inter’s bands, British cietin has sustained a 
severe loss in the death of the truly amiable and learned Professor W. H, Harvey, 
of Dublin, so well known by his works on Alge, and on the botany of South Africa. — 
I cannot refrain from ur e of this great bereavement. 
