ADVERTISEMENT. 
A TASTE for Botany and Gardening has made rapid strides 
during the past year ; the extensive circulation of botanical works 
written in a popular form having, no doubt, very much assisted in 
giving a stimulus to this delightful pursuit. 
The steady increase in the circulation of the Magazine of 
Botany, is a gratifying assurance that the work has been conducted 
to the general satisfaction of the Public, 
The plants most in esteem now by the scientific Botanist are 
unquestionably Celestial Orchidece ; but these plants, we are quite 
aware, are in general cultivation with but few of our Subscribers ; 
we have, therefore, figured only a very few, though perhaps we 
possess the advantage of doing so to as great, or perhaps greater 
extent, than any other Botanical Periodical : the object of this 
work has been to give figures of such plants only as are worthy 
of general and extended cultivation, and not of those whose chief 
recommendation is that they are new and curious. 
