 Title: The British Florist or Lady's Journal of Horticulture
Publisher: London Henry G. Bohn 1846
Seller ID: 635
284pp.,8vo. Issued monthly beginning in May 1840 as The Florist's Journal. The sections were bound together in 1846 and reissued as six volumes of The British Florist. These really are tough to find these days. This is volume 2 and contains 13 beautifully hand-coloured plates of various flowers and plants cultivated in English greenhouses and gardens, as well as an intriguing plan of an ornamental flower bed. Original green cloth boards are faded and edgeworn with a few pages in the middle a bit loose, one protective page loose, chipping to spine ends, corners bumped, some damp staining to front board. Text and plates are clean and neat. "On completing and presenting to its numerous readers and the public generally, the Second Volume of The Florist’s Journal, we find ourselves entitled to congratulate both them and us. We laid down an original and definite plan for ourselves on the first commencement of our labours: --this plan was not to give a mere list of flowers from the catalogue, and a tame and empirical account of every one’s mode of culture, unsupported by general reasonings, and those appeals to the grand workings of nature, for which the works of our predecessors might be examined in vain, as they contented themselves with the old packhorse ways of the science. We, on the other hand, have endeavoured to advance equally the art of floriculture and the science of plants, and the result, though we dared scarcely hope for it at the beginning, has been most successful. The style of writing which our correspondents have adopted is an unprecedented one; for, instead of confining themselves to composts, manures, and empirical modes of treatment, they have, without neglecting these practical matters, brought philosophy to bear upon the subject, in a manner far superior to any thing known in the earlier botanical journals of Britain. Such papers can be furnished only by the ablest men of the practical class, --by men who have brought a sound and searching philosophy to bear on their delightful art....In every flower there is, as it were, a divinity; and by means such as those which we have mentioned, and take some credit to ourselves for bringing forward, this divinity is induced to hold with mortals that delightful converse, which raises man from earth, and points his faith and his hope to those regions, the flowers of which know no winter." A wonderful addition to a collection of hand-coloured volumes. Scarce.
Florist's Journal, Hand-coloured, Hand-Colored
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