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de M. Cels, Paris 1800, folio, and Choix des Plantes dans le 

 Jardin de Cels, Paris 1803, folio. 



The gardens of Great Britain are the richest and most ce- 

 lebrated of modern times. In the first rank stands the Royal 

 Garden at Kew, of which a description was published by its 

 first superintendant WiUiam Aiton, who died 1793, under 

 the title Hortus Kewensis, three volumes, 1789. The new 

 edition of this work was published by the younger Aiton, 

 with the assistance of Robert Brown, in five volumes, from 

 1810 to 1813. The treasures of the English gardens had 

 been previously figured and described by Charles Lewis 

 L'Heritier, who died 1800, in his Sertum Anglicum, Paris 

 1788, and in his Stirpes novae aut minus cognitse, fasc. i. — ^vii. 

 Paris 1784, folio ; also by Sir James Edward Smith in his 

 Exotic Botany, London 1804 to 1808, and by Richard An- 

 tony Salisbury in his Paradisus Londinensis. But the finest 

 works in this department, are the expensive copperplate works 

 of Henry Andrews, The Botanist's Repository, London 1797 

 to 1808 ; The Botanical Magazine of Curtis and Sims, and 

 the Botanical Register, edited by Ker. An intelligently con- 

 ducted Catalogue of the Plants in the English Gardens was 

 published by Robert Sweet, under the title Hortus Subur- 

 banus Londonensis, 1818. 



Among the other garden catalogues, the following deserve 

 to be particularly noticed : Agustus Py ramus de Candolle's Ca- 

 talogus Plantarum Horti Botanici Monspeliensis, 1813, octavo, 

 and Marian Lagasca's Elenchus Plantarum quae inHortoRegio 

 botan. Matritensi colebantur, Madrid 1816, quarto ; Genera 

 et Species Plantarum, quae aut novae aut sunt nondum recte 

 cognoscuntur, Madrid 1816, quarto. 



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