FLORICULTURAL CABINET, AND FLORISTS' MAGAZINE. JANUARY TO DECEMBER, 1851. CONDUCTED BY JOSEPH HARRISON. LONDON: WHITTAKER AND CO., AVE MARIA LANE. PREFACE. WE have again arrived at the close of another year's volume of the FLORICULTURAL CABINET, and the agreeable duty now devolves upon us of recording the usual annual address to our correspondents and readers. It has been with feelings of the most flattering description that we have presented the previous eighteen volumes. The continually increasing support we have received during the present year, and by which we have been enabled to complete the nineteenth volume, we are free to acknowledge a proportionate increase in the debt of gratitude is due from us to our contributors and readers. To them we most respectfully tender our thanks for the encouragement which has so liberally been afforded us, and in the succeeding volume our utmost exertions shall be directed to render it increasingly interesting and useful, so that it may be worthy of their continued confidence and support. Aware that many of our readers have not the opportunity of frequently visiting large collections of plants, nor have the means of ascertaining the continued introduction of new plants, we have therefore paid considerable attention to obtain particulars of all such as are received from time to time in the large establishments of our own country, as well as those on the Continent, from whence such new plants can now be so easily procured. We also feel assured that many of the most showy-flowering plants of prior introduction are unknown to numbers of our readers, and we have, in consequence, given particular descriptions each month of such plants as we consider merit a place in even any select collection. No other periodical contains anything near such a number of described new or valuable plants. Conscious of its usefulness, we shall pursue the same course successively. We shall be glad at all times to receive suggestions on any subjects calculated to improve our future volumes; and the repeated kindness of our contributors and readers, we think, justifies our expectations as to their future assistance. By the aid of a generous FLORAL PUBLIC we have been enabled to attain the elevated position we occupy, and our utmost energies shall on all occasions be employed to retain it. The recommendation by our friends of the FLORICULTURAL CABINET to others will prove an increasing stimulus to our exertions. Richmond, 26th November 1851. |