ADVERTISEMENT.
T h e present Volume contains all the figures of the different
species, and the most prominent varieties, that the
Author has at present been able to procure: he has, therefore,
brought the work to a conclusion ; which he believes
will be more agreeable to the greater part of his
Subscribers, than to keep it open for a length of time,
to admit others occasionally, as they may be newly introduced
to the gardens, or as the old species might be
sometimes found in obscure collections, where they are
little expected to be.
A great many interesting species that were plentiful
in the nursery collections some years back, are not now
to be met with, many of them being sufficiently hardy
to endure a favourable Winter without protection, but
to be destroyed by a severe one, when the least covering
would preserve them ; the correct names of them were
also so little known, and one substituted for another so
frequently, that caused less attention to be paid to them
than they deserved, which we hope will not be the case
in future, as a very little protection is sufficient for the
whole of them, and nothing produces a more brilliant
effect, than a collection of them planted in rock-work,
or even grown in small pots, and placed together in a
clump, where the different colours may all be intermixed,
or kept separate, according to the taste or fancy of the
possessor.