ADVERTISEMENT. 
The labours of another year are over, and Fourteen Volumes of our 
Magazine have, with an almost unprecedented interest, been widely 
circulated throughout the world. From the scientific nature of a 
Botanical work, our most sanguine hopes could scarcely have warranted 
us to anticipate anything like the success, which has regularly attended 
our monthly labours during the last fourteen years ; and that this 
interest in Botanical pursuits is not on the decline is obvious : Botanical 
collectors, more numerous than ever, are dispatched to almost every part 
of the world, and vast forest tracts, previously perhaps untrodden by a 
human foot, are in the course of being explored; vegetable treasures, 
which for ages have blown unseen, are daily reaching our shores, and 
occupying our gardens and glasshouses ; scientific gardens are also being 
established in remote regions, and young men, previously prepared in 
the highest establishments of our country, are sent out to fill situations 
which in future years, with the facilities of communication we even 
at present possess, may effect for the world benefits which can now 
be scarcely calculated. The press teems with Botanical intelligence, 
and our own Magazine, we are happy to say, has received during the 
past year a steady increase of subscribers. 
Without the danger of being considered ostentatious, we may venture 
to say that the style of the present volume, if not superior, is at least 
