ADVERTISEMENT. 
The Magazine of Botany has now reached the close 
of the Fourth Volume, with a circulation far more extensive than 
any work of the description and price could reasonably expect; 
proving thereby that a desire for Botanical and Horticultural 
knowledge is progressively on the increase. This is truly gratifying 
to the author, as it shows that the design which first led him to 
the undertaking has been in a great degree answered, viz. — that 
of inducing more extensively a knowledge of and love for the cul- 
tivation of beautiful plants, by disseminating, in a manner to be 
understood by all, such particulars relating to their cultivation, as 
would render them accessible to every collection. 
In endeavouring to accomplish this, botanical terms difficult 
of pronunciation have been carefully avoided, and their places 
supplied by others more easy and familiar, so that those who 
have only a small collection of plants, or those even who are only 
beginning to appreciate the beauties and peculiarities of Botany, 
may at once be put in possession of the leading features in this 
very interesting and amusing study. The author by no means 
flatters himself that his labours in this volume will be found free 
from defects to the eye of the Botanist ; still even to him it may 
