Publisher's Preface. 



own resources furnished, with no name of weight and influ- 

 ence to recommend it, the nature of the subjects to which its 

 pages are devoted has been sufficient to give it a strong hold 

 upon public favor. Its future course will be unimpeded by these 

 or similar embarrassments, and there can be no doubt that it will 

 reach such an eminence in the estimation of a discerning com- 

 munity as it shall be justly entitled to by the ability with which 

 it will be conducted, the great and increasing interest felt in 

 the science of Botany, and the unwearied efforts, both of 

 editors and publisher, to render it, in every respect, worthy of 

 the first rank among similar publications. The explanation of 

 the plans formed for the future course of the work, belongs 

 more particularly to the editor, but the publisher may say that 

 it will embrace every thing necessary to make it a standard 

 treatise on Botany, together with such accessories as shall be 

 suggested by taste and experience,, and shall be calculated to 

 gratify the natural desire for what is at once elegant, entertain- 

 ing and instructive. For this purpose the publisher is confident 

 that he could possibly make no more favorable arrangements 

 than he has done for the year to come ; and that the expec- 

 tations of his patrons will not be in the least degree disap- 

 pointed. The matter which is furnished by the editors will be 

 of the most substantial character, and in point of beauty and 

 correctness of delineation and of coloring the plates will be 

 equal at least to any thing of the kind executed. 



J. K. WELLMAN. 



