GROOMBRIDGE AND SONS WILL PUBLISH, 



On the First of January, 1858, PRICE FOURPENCE, 

 To be continued Monthly, 



NO. I. OF THE 



AND 



GARDEN GUIDE. 



A PRACTICAL MISCELLANY OF FACTS AND INTELLIGENCE IN 

 EVERY DEPARTMENT OF HORTICULTURE. 



PROSPECTUS. 



Our Periodical Literature is by no means deficient in ably conducted journals of 'Gardening, 

 and its associative pursuits, and yet it has long been felt, by those interested in such subjects, 

 that there is still a need of one so conducted as to meet the wants of a large class of read- 

 er-, who fail to find, in the established journals, the kind of information of which they are 

 most in need. The large and increasing class of Amateurs, who have neither expensive estab- 

 lishments, nor the help of skilful salaried gardeners, are almost unrepresented; and though they 

 may find much to interest them iu existing gardening literature, there is not one Horticultural 

 journal wholly devoted to their interests, or that affords them an unfettered medium of inter- 

 communication. The "Floral World" is intended to fill this, at present, unoccupied ground; 

 and though professional gardeners will not be wholly forgotten, those who pursue gardening 

 as a pleasure, and with limited resources, will be most anxiously cared for. 



The "Floral World" will be devoted entirely to Gardening subjects, and no subsidiary 

 topics will be allowed to interfere with the full consideration of these, as represented in the 

 several departments of Plant Houses, Flower, Fruit, and Vegetable Culture, Garden Scenes 

 and Embellishments, the Management of Allotment Lands, Flower Shows, and Horticultural 

 Botany. These will be severally treated, in a simple and pi'actical manner, by experienced pens, 

 and the fullest attention will be given to communications from correspondents," whether seeking or 

 conveying information. 



The contents of every number will be varied, and practical usefulness will always have 

 preference over speculation and theory; so that it is hoped the "Floral World" will soon 

 become a necessity of the time, as a guide to seasonal work iu the garden and greenhouse, a 

 journal of intelli lly interesting to Amateurs, and a medium of intercommunication 



in every department of Horticulture. 



The "Editor has made arrangements for the co-operation of several well-known horticultural 

 writers, who will enrich the pages of the "Floral Would" with the results of thetr ex- 

 perience in assigned them. Amongst other subjects which will be 

 treated of, ; Flowers will occupy a prominent plnce; a series of papers on Pro- 

 fitable Gardening, in which many new and improved methods of vegetable culture will be 

 described, by a ■ pen, will appear regularly, and each number will, as far as pos- 

 sible, be so as that the several matters treated of will be applicable to the seasons. 



NO. I. WILL CONTAIN: 



it w of the Tast Tear. 

 I ly Summary of Horticultural Intellij 

 itive Pit for Amateurs. 

 Greenli 



:.il Bulbs. 

 The Pla 



iarden and Greenhouse. 



Trees adapt 11 Gardens. 



I Climbers for North Walls. 

 ' Planting for Pictorial Effect. 

 j The Cultivation of the Cineraria. 

 ; -Notices of Books and Nurserymen's Catalogues. 

 A Selection of Choice Tlants for Greenhouse 

 Culture. 



in January. 

 Preparations for Spring Shows. 

 Meteorological and Floricultural Calendar for 

 January, &C, &C. 





., t$c , to be addressed "Editor 'Floral 



' «, E. (J. 



LONDON: 



GEOOMBEEDGE AND SONS, PrBEISETEES, 5, PATEENOSTEE-EOW 



