their present form few of my Flowers would be recognised; but still perhaps I may be permitted to express a hope, that, in their mature development-in their full growth and blossoming-they may be as indulgently received by the public as, in their early and less perfect state, they were by those for whom they were originally intended.

J. STEVENSON BUSHNAN, M.D.

NOTTINGHAM PLACE, REGENT'S PARK.