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ADVERTISEMENT. 
have its use, by teaching the propriety of dispensing with all 
unnecessary and abstruse botanical terms, so that the amateur and 
gardener may derive equal advantage and amusement. 
To render the work still more serviceable, the author intends, 
in future numbers, to insert a series of plans for flower gardens, &c. 
These plans will be given of various forms and sizes, calculated to 
suit a variety of situations : the character and style also of the 
designs will vary, so that the taste of individuals may be exercised 
in selecting the most suitable. Such new plants as recommend 
themselves by their beauty, &c., will be regularly figured in the next 
volume, and all useful facts connected with their history and culti- 
vation carefully detailed : and the earliest account of every new 
plant that flowers in the London nurseries, will be fully detailed, 
and every particular that is disclosed about them, made known. 
In conclusion, the author begs to offer his grateful thanks for 
the encouragement and support he has hitherto received, and to 
express his earnest desire that the Magazine of Botany should con- 
tinue to be useful and beneficial to his readers. 
Chatsworth, 
December 20, 1837. 
