On the first of last month was published the first Number of
a work conducted by Mr. J . C. Loudon, entitled the Gardeners
Magazine, a work that will become both useful and mterestmg,
if well o-ot up. Under Garden Botany, at p. 61 of the said Ma-
aazine.'is an attack upon our Flower Garden, m which it says
that the “ plates bear no sort of comparison with the neatness
and accuracy we are accustomed to expect in works of this nature.”
The writer of this Garden Botany is Mr. Lmdfey, one
of the Clerks belonging to the Horticultural Society s Garden,
who also at present writes for the Botanical R egister, and sometimes
embellishes it with what he may call of plants . of
his own drawing, such as Rubus paucijlorus, pi. 854, the panicles
of which he describes as being without prickles, which he
says distinguishes it from another species; but his figure represents
the panicles prickly; he also describes the leaflets sessile
but they are all represented with footstalks; if that is the sort
of accuracy he wishes us to adopt, I believe our Subscribers
would much rather that we omit it. I t is very plain that he had
not examined the works of which he was speaking, as he says
there are six volumes of the Geramace» published, altoough
the third is not yet finished; also two volumes of the B riteh
Flower Garden, though this number only makes one and a halt.
As for the correctness of the Figures, we can speak with confa-
dence, as we examine them all by the plants, and by our descriptions,
before they goto the engraver, and then again before they
are coloured ; and we are quite certain that there is Botanical
work of the kind better or more carefully coloured than this
is ; we pay more than other works for colouring, on purpose to
have the best colours used. But Mr. L. intends all this, we believe,
against our artist, who at one time made many drawings
for the Society, until Mr. L. became jealous of him, and was
ashamed of his own figures : this now shows itself plainly, as he
says tne figures by Mr. Clark, in the Flora Conspicua, are real
specimens of a rt; and we believe that most people will agree
with us that they are the worst that are at present published ;
but Mr. C. now draws for the Society, and Mr. Smith’s drawings
are shown him as specimens to go by.
1 Palvx 2 VexiUnm. 3. The 2 short a t e , or wings. 4. Keel. S. T h e 9 S ta n
g e n / w ih the figm en ts all connected a t the base, an d d istin c t a t the points.
? The S n c t f i l a m r " which is sometimes also slightly connected a t the base
7. Geimen showing its downy surface, te rmina ted by an ascending Style , and
small c a p itate Stigma.
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