ADVERTISEMENT. 
IN dismissing the present volume from the press, we tender our warmest 
thanks to our numerous Subscribers who have for the last sixteen years 
given to our Magazine a most unprecedented encouragement. 
In the commencement of 1849 we entered on a wider field than we had 
previously occupied, including in our work Notices and Cultivation of every 
thing connected with Gardening. Although the plan did not admit of so 
many plates being given monthly, yet, perhaps, an equal number of subjects 
have been figured with any former year, and the amount of letter-press 
has been much greater ; yet the alteration altogether has not been so 
satisfactory, either to our subscribers or ourselves, as could have been wished, 
although there has been no diminution of subscribers. 
Notwithstanding the un diminished support given, we deem it the best 
to bring the work to a final close, as it has become, for some years past, to 
new subscribers, a rather unwieldy and expensive publication, we therefore 
beg our Readers to consider this sixteenth volume as the termination of 
the Magazine of Botany, which must now be considered — completed. 
Although our present Magazine terminates with this volume, our labours 
will still continue. An entirely New Work, of a different size, with better 
and more highly finished plates, will be its successor, to be called “ PAXTON'S 
FLOWER GARDEN ; ” and in the conducting of which we shall have the 
joint assistance of Dr. Lindley, whose extensive knowledge of Botany has 
placed him on an eminence enjoyed by few. 
Although a comparison with the Magazine of Botany can scarcely be a 
fair criterion by which to judge of our future labours, yet we will guarantee 
that our matter and embellishments for the coming year shall not be 
surpassed by anything of the kind the present age can produce. 
Chatsworth, 
December 24 , 1849 . 
