viii ADVERTISEMENT. 
merely observing that we have aimed to fill it with portraits of as many 
new and beautiful flowers as possible, and to render its letter-press 
more practical, and therefore more useful, we shall leave it to explain 
and establish its own claim to merit. 
Our commencement of another Magazine year and progress through 
it will be found, we venture to assure our readers, as satisfactory as in 
any they have accompanied us through. With this assurance, therefore, 
and the acknowledgment of our great obligations to them and all our 
friends, we shall take leave till we meet them after we have commenced 
the fulfilment of our promise, and begun anew to evince our gratitude. 
Chatsworth, 
December 19 th, 1846'. 
