Their frequent occurrence makes it desirable that their 
history, and origin, should he known. The re-issue of the 
early numbers of this work will afford a convenient 
opportunity for those who possess only the latter part, to 
complete their sets. Olliers may begin with the beginning, 
and avail themselves of the economy which former years 
have enabled us to offer them. 
It is not without regret that we, in some degree, dis- 
sever a tie between ourselves and numerous distant friends 
—a union, however slight, to which we owe much pleasure, 
without the occurrence of a single pang from the passing of 
a sentiment that we could wish obliterated. 
We confess, to a desire, still to hold a place in the re- 
membrance of garden lovers, and hope by a re-issue of the 
Botanic Garden, to perpetuate, a little longer, the connex- 
ions, to which time and feeling have given us so close an 
attachment. 
