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Thomas Moore (1821-1887) and William P. Ayres, editors
The Gardener's Magazine of Botany, Horticulture, Floriculture and Natural Science. London: William S. Orr, January 1850-December 1851. 3 vols, 4to (260 x 181mm). Tinted lithographic additional title to vol.I after H.N.Humphreys, 111 plates by S. Holden or C.T. Rosenberg comprising 100 hand-coloured lithographic plates of flowers, fruits and insects, 11 uncoloured plates of ferns, numerous wood-engraved illustrations. Publishers green ribbed-cloth blocked in blind, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, g.e. (spines faded and neatly repaired, later endpapers).
This periodical, compiled while Moore was curator of the Botanic Garden, Chelsea, was published for only two years before a lack of subscribers forced the editors to cease publication. A less-lavish The Garden Companion followed, but this too folded in 1852. The Gardener's Magazine of Botany was aimed at the professional gardener, but, as the editors state in the preface to vol.III, 'the fact was to some extent overlooked that [the professional gardener]... did not always possess the means of spending his monthly half-crown on one periodical, however high his appreciation of it might be. Experience has further shown... that among gardeners, the numbers who seek for Scientific Information and Technical Botany are a limited class'. BM N.H., p.639; Stafleu & Cowan III, p.571. (3)
The Gardener's Magazine of Botany, Horticulture, Floriculture and Natural Science. London: William S. Orr, January 1850-December 1851. 3 vols, 4to (260 x 181mm). Tinted lithographic additional title to vol.I after H.N.Humphreys, 111 plates by S. Holden or C.T. Rosenberg comprising 100 hand-coloured lithographic plates of flowers, fruits and insects, 11 uncoloured plates of ferns, numerous wood-engraved illustrations. Publishers green ribbed-cloth blocked in blind, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, g.e. (spines faded and neatly repaired, later endpapers).
This periodical, compiled while Moore was curator of the Botanic Garden, Chelsea, was published for only two years before a lack of subscribers forced the editors to cease publication. A less-lavish The Garden Companion followed, but this too folded in 1852. The Gardener's Magazine of Botany was aimed at the professional gardener, but, as the editors state in the preface to vol.III, 'the fact was to some extent overlooked that [the professional gardener]... did not always possess the means of spending his monthly half-crown on one periodical, however high his appreciation of it might be. Experience has further shown... that among gardeners, the numbers who seek for Scientific Information and Technical Botany are a limited class'. BM N.H., p.639; Stafleu & Cowan III, p.571. (3)