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On the First of January, to be continued Monthly, Price Eighteen Pence, 
WITH TWO COLOURED PLATES AND SIXTEEN PAGES OF LETTERPRESS, INTERSPERSED 
WITH WOOD ENGRAVINGS, 
THE 
COMPANION TO THE FlOWEft-SABBEN ; 
OR, 
HINTS ON GENERAL CULTIVATION, FLORICULTURE, AND HOTHOUSE MANAGEMENT, 
WITH A RECORD OF BOTANICAL PROGRESS. 
This Work will he chiefly confined to Flower-culture and Botany, heing intended 
to form a Monthly Record, with faithful representations, of such Plants, — whether 
newly-imported species, or new varieties of Florists' Flowers, as are deserving of 
extensive cultivation. Each Part is intended to contain Two Plates, drawn from 
nature, and coloured in every respect equal to those in the " Gardeners' Magazine 
of Botany," with Sixteen Pages of Letter-press, interspersed with Vignettes and 
Engravings on Wood. 
The Plates will, as far as possible, be allotted so as both to represent the finest 
Florists' Flowers as they come into bloom, and the most interesting and newest 
Flowering Plants imported during the season, or flowered for the first time in this 
country. In each case, when the subjects admit of it, two or more figures will be 
grouped together, so that three or four subjects may frequently be represented on the 
Two Plates. 
The Letter-press will consist of popular descriptions of the Coloured Illustrations, 
with their history and cultivation in plain and popular language, with clue precision, 
but without any attempt at technical description ; Notices of New Flowering Plants 
from Public and Private Gardens and the Nurseries, accompanied by Wood 
Engravings of the most remarkable of those which the Plates will not suffice to 
illustrate ; and a record of Botanical progress derived from personal observation, or 
gleaned from the foreign journals, and from the proceedings of the Societies. 
As it will be the object of the Conductors to place before their readers infor- 
mation on all the best and newest Flowers and Plants, with Illustrations of them, it 
will be the interest of Cultivators residing at a distance from London to acquaint 
them, from time to time, with the existence of novelties worthy of being figured, 
described, and cultivated. All such communications will be treated with attention 
and impartiality. 
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LONDON : Wm. S. ORR & CO., AMEN CORNER ; AND 32, NORTH JOHN ST., LIVERPOOL; 
JOJJ.N MENZIES, AND FRASER AND CO., EDINBURGH j 
AND JAMES M'GLASUAN, 50, UPPER SACKVILLE STREET, DUBLIN. 
