Excerpt from Curtis's Botanical Magazine, or Flower-Garden Displayed, 1814, Vol. 39: In Which the Most Ornamental Foreign Plants, Cultivated in the Open Ground, the Green-House, and the Stove, Are Accurately Represented in Their Natural Colours; To Which Are Added, Their Names, Class, Order, Generic and Specific Characters Found by Mr. Nuttall in the neighbourhood of the Mifl'ouri in north-america, who brought many novel and curious plants from that country; fome of which that flowered at Liverpool lalt year, he indly tranfmitted us recent fpecimens of. But our draughtfman being unfortunately abfent on a journey into Wales at the time, we had no opportunity of availing ourl'elves of them for this work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.