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" Hortus Suburbanus Calcuttensis. A Catalogue of the Plants 

 which have been cultivated in the Honorable East India Company's 

 Botanical Garden, Calcutta, and in the Serampore Botanical 

 Garden. By the late J. O. Voigt, Surgeon to the Banish 

 Government, Serampore : Printed under the Superintendence of 

 W. Griffith, F.L.S., tyc. $*c." 



If the work, the title of which we have placed at the head of this 

 article, needs any recommendation, it can have none more flattering 

 than the fact that the printing of it was superintended by Dr. Griffith, 

 the most accomplished Botanist that India ever saw. Any one who, 

 like the writer, has met Dr. Griffith in the deep jungles, and is at 

 all acquainted with his indefatigable efforts to bring to light the 

 flora of India, will readily believe, that he valued his time too highly 

 to waste it in reading the proof sheets of a book on Botany that 

 was not worth purchasing, had he been wholly silent in respect to 

 its character. He speaks, however, of both the work and its author 

 in the highest terms. He says, referring to the manuscripts, " it 

 would be a mortal sin not to publish them. The work will do Voigt 

 very great credit. It must have cost him great labour, and I can answer 

 for it, that it will perpetuate his name as an Indian Botanist. The 

 Catalogue would certainly command an European sale, as it would 

 be essential to all real Botanists. Indeed I know of none, which 

 would contain so much interesting information. I should like to see 

 a handsome monument erected to Voigt, if possible, in these gardens, 

 where, as his memory would then be associated with that of 

 Roxburgh, Jack, and I hope Buchanan, it would be in good com- 

 pany. It will be on the ground of its being a genera of plants of 

 Lower Bengal, and its great practical utility that I shall be delighted 

 to recommend it as the systematic hand-book of the botanical class, 

 as such, it will constitute era the second in Bengal Botany." 



It cannot be misunderstood then, that the work is " essential to 

 all real botanists ; but it is not so well known, that it is an ex- 

 ceedingly useful book to every one that admires flowers ; and who 

 | does not in India ?" A friend of ours on applying for a copy of 

 | the work to a person who acts as an agent for its sale, was told, 

 "the book is fit only for botanists, it will be of no use to you." 



