(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, 1s. 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 AZALIA 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 ls. 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 1s. 6d. each.

Herbaceous plants in great variety.

DOUBLE WHITE PRIMROSE 21s. per Dozen.

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

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

PYRUS Spectabilis, 1s. 6d. Fine varieties of Crabs, Is. to 1s. 6d. each. N. B. The Fruit Trees are grown on a poor Loam, and will remove to better advantage to the Purchaser, than from the rich soil of the London Nurseries.

Containing FOUR COLOURED PLATES, with Descriptions, price 1s. ; or with the Plates full coloured, 2s.

No. 43

OF A NEW AND IMPROVED EDITION OF

CURTIS'S

BOTANICAL MAGAZINE;

OR FLOWER GARDEN DISPLAYED ;

WITH

AMENDED CHARACTERS OF THE SPECIES:

THE WHOLE ARRANGED ACCORDING TO

THE NATURAL ORDERS

BY

W. J. HOOKER, LL. D. F. R. A. & L. S. &c. &c. &c.

AND REGIUS PROFESSOR OF BOTANY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW.

TO WHICH IS ADDED

THE MOST APPROVED METHOD OF CULTURE,

BY

SAMUEL CURTIS, F. L. S.

OF THE GLAZENWOOD HORTICULTURAL GROUNDS, ESSEX, AND PROPRIETOR
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FEW works, perhaps, connected with Botany, treated especially as an elegant amusement, have enjoyed a more extensive or a more deserved share of reputation and popularity than the BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, commenced, and for many years so ably conducted, by the late Mr. Curtis.

It was the first work of the kind that had ever been attempted in any country; though it has now met with imitators in many parts of Europe, and even in North America. The great expense, however, of keeping up complete sets of the entire stock of Fiftythree Volumes, and the heavy cost attending the purchase of the whole work to individuals who have not taken it from the commencement, have induced the present proprietor and conductor of the Botanical Magazine, Mr. Samuel Curtis, to resolve upon meeting the wishes of many loyers of Horticulture and Botany, Gardeners, and such as have it not in their power to procure the original edition, and to publish an entirely NEW EDITION of the OLD SERIES, on a more economical, but scarcely less beautiful, and in some respects more useful form.

This new edition will be printed in royal octavo, on fine paper, and the plates will be half coloured. The descriptive part will be confined to what is necessary for the determination of the species, and the whole will be published in systematic order, commencing with the Clematis and Ranunculus Tribe, and following the arrangement of the celebrated DE CANDOLLE, as given in his "Prodromus." There will be given at the head of the species, the characters of the CLASSES, ORDERS, and GENERA. Such remarks will be made upon their uses and properties and cultivation, derivation of generic names, &c. &c. as the subject may require; and the whole will be written in English. Any figure that may be requisite for the illustration of such Orders as are not given in the Old Series, will be selected from the New: so that the work will be an epitome of all that has been made known to Science, both by figures and descriptions, through the medium of the Botanical Magazine, during a period of forty-five years.

A Number, price 1s. (or with the Plates full coloured, price 2s.) will appear twice in every month, containing four Plates accompanied by four pages of closely-printed Letter Press, more or less as the subject may require. A volume of Ninety-six Plates will thus appear every year.

The Letter Press will be conducted by Dr. HOOKER, Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow; with the exception of what regards the cultivation of the species, which will invariably be supplied by Mr. CURTIS.

"Mr. CURTIS and Dr. HooKER are doing the gardening and botanical public a great service; for important as is the first edition of THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE to botanists and cultivators of flower plants, for the elucidation of their pursuit, its price makes it inaccessible to too many of them. The present edition goes to remedy this inconvenience. The first edition has, too, the fault of having the various species of a genus (where several species of a genus have been figured in the work) scattered through two, more, or many volumes: take the genus IRIS as an example. In the present edition, the species figured and described are to succeed each other in the natural order of their kindred relations. This circumstance would lead us much to prefer the new edition to the old. The first number was published on April 1, 1833, and a sight of it has given us pleasure. It contains a preface, in which is sketched an outline of those points in the structure of plants which are most relevant in determining their natural resemblances and affinities. In succession to this, the characters of DE CANDOLLE's first order, the RANUNCULACEE, are given, and those of the first tribe in it, the CLEMATIDEE; then follow the characters of the genus Clematis, and pictures and descriptions of four species of it."-Loudon's Gardener's Magazine.

being sufficiently delicate. I have flowers of the different kinds, which annually at Glazenwood attain to a diameter of eight to ten inches, and these in such profusion as to be greatly admired by all who see them.

HAB.

Mountains of China. H. Fl. May, June.

SECTION II. PEON. Stem herbaceous. Disk but little or not at all expanded, and 'only surrounding the base of the carpels. De Cand.

2. P. ALBIFLORA (White-flowered Peony); stem about 3flowered herbaceous, leaflets ovato-lanceolate confluent laciniated, germens glabrous, flowers erect. And.-Pall. Fl. Ross. v. 2. p. 92. t. 84. And. Monogr. in Linn. Trans. v. 12. p. 256.

Z. uniflora; leaflets concave narrower, corolla white of about eight petals, stigmas ochreous, stems nearly simple. (TAB. LIX.) P. albiflora. Bot. Mag. ed. 1. t. 1756.

9. Humei; leaflets wrinkled unequally laciniated, flowers very double reddish, stems about four feet high with 3-flowered cymes. (TAB. LX.)-Sabine in Hort. Trans. v. 2. p. 279. And. Monogr. in Linn. Trans. v. 12. p. 260.-P. edulis, var. Sinensis. Bot. Mag. ed. 1. t. 1768.

HAB. Common throughout the Chinese empire, as well as in Siberia and Tartary, Mount Caucasus, and grassy hills of Georgia. H. Fl. June, July.

CULTURE. This division of the Paonia family contains by far the most ornamental of all the herbaceous kinds, and which also possess the great advantage of flowering a month later than the old European species-added to this, they produce from one to five blossoms on a single stem, some of them (particularly rosea or fragrans) being as sweet-scented as a rose. They are in general of taller growth than most of the European Peonies.

The varieties of albiflora or edulis are all propagated in a similar manner to the European kinds: for although their roots differ much from them, they will not grow unless they have a portion of the Crown attached to them. Their roots are composed of thick fleshy fangs, as long and as thick as large carrots, of a dark colour, approaching to black, outside, but very white within. The texture of

the substance of the root seems to be much firmer than that of the carrot, but brittle, and tolerably free from fibre. These roots, I suppose, are what are used in the cookery of the Mongol Tartars. The readiest way to propagate them is, to open the ground round the crowns of the roots deeply, and, with a strong knife, cut off the outside detached crowns which have buds to them, with a portion of root to each, leaving the strong centre crowns attached to the largest roots, which will, the following summer, be exceedingly strong for flowering. Under such circumstances, I have had of the double white three pairs of side buds to the centre flower on one stem; and five of the blossoms have opened at once in great perfection.

I am at a loss to know why Botanists should retain the name of albiflora to this groupe of Paonias; which, I think, would be better designated under that of edulis. For a large bright rose-coloured flower to be termed albiflora, seems perpetuating an absurdity like what Botany laboured under in past ages, that of naming the old species and varieties Male and Female, which had nothing to do with the sexes of plants, as the whole of their flowers are hermaphrodite. However questionable may be the esculent qualities of P. edulis, the virtues attributed to the roots by the ancients are quite disregarded in modern practice.

3. P. ANOMALA (Jagged-leaved Siberian Paony); stem singleflowered, leaflets multipartite, the segments lanceolate, and as well as the germen glabrous. And. (TAB. LXI.)—Linn. Mant. p. 247. Bot. Mag. ed. 1. t. 1754. And. Mon. in Linn. Trans. v. 12. p. 261.

HAB. Siberia, especially in the Altaic Mountains. H. Fl. May, June. The roots of this and the preceding species attain to a considerable size and constitute a part of the food of the Mongol Tartars.

4. P. TENUIFOLIA (Fine-leaved Pæony); leaflets multipartite glabrous linear-subulate, peduncles very short, germens downy erect. And. (TAB. LXII.)-Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 748. Bot. Mag. ed. 1. t. 926. And. Mon. in Linn. Trans. v. 12. p. 263.

HAB. The Ukraine, between the Tanais and the Volga, on hilly grounds and perpendicular banks of the Terec. Plentiful in the Taurian Chersonesus. H. Fl. June.

5. P. OFFICINALIS (Common Peony); leaflets unequally lacini ated, glabrous, the segments ovato-lanceolate, germens nearly straight