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Publifh'd

as the Act directs June 1.1790 by W.Curtis, St George's Crefcent.

of the BOTANICAL MAGAZINE will continue to be published regularly on the first day of every month. Seventy-five numbers of this very highly interesting and beautiful work are now before the Public, in which are displayed, most accurately coloured from nature, with full descriptions of their uses, and valuable information as to their products in economical and commercial points of view, the rare and curious DOUBLE Cocoa NUT, the CLOVE, NUTMEG, BLACK PEPPER, SAGO, TAPIOCA, the BREAD FRUIT TREE, CUSTARD Apple, Butter Nut, PAPAW TREE, the COLUMBO ROOT, POISON TANGHIN, the COCHINEAL PLANT and INSECTS, &c. &c., with many interesting Plants never before figured in any European work.

This work is elegantly printed in royal 8vo. Each Number, price 3s. 6d. contains eight highly finished coloured Plates, with accurate descriptions. Twelve Numbers form a handsome Volume, and may be had of the Proprietor at Glazenwood; or of Messrs. SHERWOOD, GILBERT, and PIPER, Paternoster Row, and Messrs. ARCH's, Cornhill.

Lately published, price 15s. boards.

GENERAL INDEXES to the FIRST FIFTY-THREE VOLUMES of the BOTANICAL MAGAZINE; consisting of

1st.-A GENERAL ALPHABETICAL ENGLISH INDEX, with the Volume and Number of the Plate prefixed to each Plant to which the Latin Name is added.

2nd. A GENERAL ALPHABETICAL LATIN INDEX, with the same reference to Volume and Plate; to which the English Names are added.

3rd. A GENERAL SYSTEMATICAL LATIN INDEX, with the same reference to Volume and Plate; to which the English Names are added.

As an additional interest to this appendage of the work, a Portrait, with a Sketch of the Life and Writings of Mr. WILLIAM CURTIS, the original Author of it, is added; and at the end of the Index, blank leaves are inserted, for the continuation of the Index in manuscript.

TO ADVERTISERS.

CURTIS'S

BOTANICAL MAGAZINE,

which has been published without intermission on the first day of every Month for the last Forty-five Years, and is circulated amongst the most respectable classes of Society, from its established reputation, elegance, and scientific tendency, must be viewed with interest by all persons under whose observation it comes, and will be found a most desirable medium to Advertisers.

For all Works on Science, ingenious Improvements or Inventions, more particularly as they may relate to Horticulture, Agriculture, or any subject in which not only the Nobility and Gentry, but all scientific persons would feel an interest, the BOTANICAL MAGAZINE forms one of the best vehicles for bringing such improvements under the notice of the most intelligent persons in these kingdoms, as well as abroad. The Work is elegantly printed in Royal Octavo, and the Advertisements admitted are of a select. description.

TERMS FOR ADVERTISING.

For a whole page royal octavo, £2. 2s.; half a page, £1. 1s.; one third of a page, 15s.; not exeding ten lines, 10s. Gd. For Stitching-in Proposals, Prospectuses, &c. not exceeding four pages, 1. 11s. 6d.

Prospectuses, &c. sent for Stitching-in must be perfectly dry, as the Plates of the Work are beaufully coloured; and would be much injured by damp Prospectuses.

N. B. It is requested, that all Advertisements, &c., may be sent to the Publishers, Messrs. SHERWOOD, GILBERT, and PIPER, Paternoster Row, by the 21st of the month.

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(PROPRIETOR OF THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, )

Of Glazenwood, near Coggeshall, Essex, begs to recommend the following Articles from his Nursery.

RHODODENDRON Smithii, 2s. 6d. each. Curious hybrid varieties from Arboreum and Ponticum, fine Plants in Pots, 5s. Seedlings from Catawbiensis, Eighteen Inches to Two Feet, Is. 6d. Seedlings in great variety of ponticum, Eighteen Inches, Ís. each; hirsutum in varieties, and ferrugineum, Is. 6d. each. Ponticum for extensive planting from £2 to £4 per 100.

AZALIAS in great variety, fine Plants with Flower Buds, 1s. 6d.
each; Scarlet, 2s. 6d.; pontica, Eighteen Inches, ls. each; for
extensive planting, from £2 to £4 per 100. Seedling AZALTA
Indica, from Twenty to Thirty Inches, 3s. each.

STUARTIA Marylandica and Malachodendron, beautiful flowering
American Shrubs, Is. 6d. each.

An extensive collection of American Plants consisting of ANDROMEDAS,
KALMIAS, LEDUMS, MAGNOLIAS, STUARTIAS, VACCINIUMS, &c.
&c. averaging from Is. to 1s. 6d. each in collections..

ROSES. A superb collection of Six Hundred fine varieties, with their
Names, from 6d. to 1s. each.

CHINA ROSES in great variety, averaging ls. each.

CLIMBING ROSES in great variety, averaging 1s._ each; Double
Macartney, 3s. 6d. ; Double Ayrshire, vel Rosa Ruga, 3s.

TREE PÆONIA, 3s. 6d. to 5s. each; PEONIA Papaveracea, 15s. to
21s. each; PEONIA edulis in varieties, 2s. each; other herbaceous
PEONIAS, in great variety, at ls. 6d. each.

Herbaceous plants in great variety.

DOUBLE WHITE PRIMROSE 21s. per Dozen.

CACTUS speciosa, Is., speciosissimus, 1s. 6d. to 5s., truncatus, ls. 6d. to 3s. 6d., some curious Seedling hybrid varieties, very beautiful, 2s. 6d. to 10s. 6d. each.

YUCCA aloifolia, beautifully variegated foliage, 15s.; other kinds from 2s. to 5s. each.

DAHLIAS. A fine collection principally Seedlings of Mr. CURTIS'S raising; together with the most approved named sorts, from 1s. 6d. to 2s. 6d. each.

DAHLIA SEED from fine Double Flowers 2s. 6d. per paper.

APPLES. An excellent Collection of the best and most useful kinds,
fine Dwarf Standards, which have been headed back two or three
times, and which will come into bearing very soon, at 1s. each.
Strong Plants of the Glazenwood Gloria Mundi Apple, Fruit of
which Mr. CURTIS has grown, weighing 26 oz., at 2s. 6d. each.
PEARS. Fine Three and Four Year's old Trees of the finest sorts,
1s. each; trained for Walls, 3s. 6d. each.

PLUMS in great variety, dwarfs, 1s.; standards, Is. 6d. Gemerina,
the large Portugal Plum, 3s. 6d. each. Washington, 3s. 6d.
CHERRIES in great variety, dwarfs, 1s; standards, 1s. 6d. each.
Honywood's New Ruby heart, 2s. 6d. each.

PYRUS Spectabilis, 1s. 6d. Fine varieties of Crabs, 1s. to 1s. 6d. each.

N. B. The Fruit Trees are grown on a poor Loam, and will remove to better ad antage to the Purchaser, than from the rich soil of the London Nurseries.

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