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Excerpt from English Botany, or Coloured Figures of British Plants, With Their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth, Vol. 7: To Which Will Be Added, Occasional Remarks
Vor VII. A publishingpublishing by Mr. Sowerby alone, in a separate work. Our original views indeed were more limited, but seven years progress has enlarged them. Such plants as were already figured in Mr. Curtis's Flora Londinensis, it was thought might be omitted; but to that a great number of our most intelligent purchasers objected, and we have for many reasons acceded to their opinion. It is not without concern that we have found the Editor of that truly valuable work has taken offence at this publication, as clashing with his, which was by no means our aim or desire. On the contrary, I no sooner heard of his displeasure, than I told him, if he thought the book likely at all to interfere with the success of his Flora, we would confine it to such plants as were not to be found within ten miles of London, the limits he had originally prescribed to himself. His answer was, that he should ever consider our undertaking, in any form, as in all respects hostile to his an answerl received with regret, having till then kept up a most friendly botanical intercourse with him; and I record it now merely that the Public may understand the real state of the case.
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