324  London  Botanic  Gardens.  {Ami™y,wS£rm 
Flora  Londinensis  was,  to  some  extent,  completed,  and  even  extended, 
but  the  plates  of  the  former  work  are  not  to  be  compared  with  those 
of  Curtis's  six  fasciculi.  The  first  number  of  "  The  Botanical  Maga- 
zine ;  or  Flower-Garden  Displayed  "  was  issued  in  1787,  and  the 
plan  of  the  work,  which  has  been  faithfully  adhered  to  in  its  essen- 
tials ever  since,  is  outlined  by  Curtis  in  his  preface  as  follows: — 
"The  present  periodical  publication  owes  its  commencement  to  the  repeated 
solicitations  of  several  Ladies  and  Gentlemen,  Subscribers  to  the  Author's 
Botanic  Garden,  who  were  frequently  lamenting  the  want  of  a  work,  which 
might  enable  them,  not  only  to  acquire  a  systematic  knowledge  of  the  Foreign 
Plants  growing  in  their  gardens,  but  which  might  at  the  same  time  afford  them 
the  best  information  respecting  their  culture— in  fact,  a  work,  in  which  Botany 
and  Gardening  (so  far  as  relates  to  the  culture  of  ornamental  Plants)  or  the 
labour  of  LinnjEus  and  Miliar,  might  happily  be  combined. 
"In  compliance  with  their  wishes,  he  has  endeavoured  to  present  them 
with  the  united  information  of  both  authors,  and  to  illustrate  each  by  a  set  of 
new  figures  drawn  always  from  the  living  plant,  and  coloured  as  near  to  nature 
as  the  imperfection  of  colouring  will  admit. 
"  He  does  not  mean,  however,  to  confine  himself  solely  to  the  Plants  con- 
tained in  the  highly  esteemed  works  of  those  luminaries  of  Botany  and  Gar- 
dening, but  shall  occasionally  introduce  new  ones,  as  they  may  flower  in  his 
own  garden,  or  those  of  the  curious  in  any  part  of  Great-Britain." 
After  Curtis's  death  the  "  Botanical  Magazine  "  was  continued 
by  John  Sims,  who  was  succeeded  by  Sir  William  Hooker,  to  be 
followed  in  turn  by  Sir  Joseph  Hooker,  and  by  the  present  editor, 
Sir  William  Dyer.  The  value  of  the  "  Botanical  Magazine  "  to  the 
pharmacist  is  evidenced  by  the  fact  that,  in  the  last  edition  of  the 
British  Pharmacopoeia,  he  is  referred  to  that  magazine  for  plates  of 
the  following  plants  :  Aloe  Chinensis,  Baker  (Bot.  Mag.,  plate  6301) ; 
Aloe  Perry  i,  Baker  (Bot.  Mag.,  plate  6596);  Ery thro xy Ion  Coca, 
Lam.  {Bot.  Mag.,  plate  7334) ;  Hamamelis  Virginiana,  L.  (Bot.  Mag., 
plate  6684) ;  Illicium  verum,  Hook.  f.  (Bot.  Mag.,  plate  7005)  ;  Pilo- 
carpus Jaborandi,  Holmes  (Bot.  Mag.,  plate  7483) ;  Quillaja  sapo- 
naria,  Molina  (Bot.  Mag.,  plate  7568);  and  Smilax  ornata,  Hook.  f. 
{Bot.  Mag.,  tab.  7054). 
"The  Treasury  of  Botany,"  edited  by  Lindley  &  Moore,  is  last 
on  our  list,  but  not  least.  It  would  be  a  work  of  supererogation  to 
describe  a  book  which  is  so  well  known  to  every  economic  botanist, 
but  it  is  no  exaggeration  to  say  that  there  is  no  other  work  on  the 
same  subject  which  contains  so  much  information  compressed  into 
so  small  a  space. 
