OUR CONTEMPOEAEIES. 



This being the conchuling number of our first volume, we take the oppor- 

 tunity to l)ring under the notice of our readers a few of the leading maga- 

 zines and other periodicals, amongst the numerous exchanges received by 

 us during the past year. First to our hand come the home journals, 

 among Avhich the ably-conducted Gardenefs Chronicle worthily holds the 

 lead, as it has now done for more than a generation, in interest to land- 

 owners, and our readers generally, who are engaged in any way in the 

 management of landed property ; the varied aspects of rural economy, and 

 of plant life and culture, being discussed in its pages with unexcelled 

 clearness, freshness, and vigour, from week to week, in accordance with the 

 times and the onward march of science and the cultural arts. A long- 

 standing favourite with all who enjoy country life and the pleasures of a 

 well-kept garden is the Journal of Horticulture, than which no journal of 

 the kind is better worth a place in every country house and garden. The 

 Garden, and the Florist and Pomologist, are well-known horticultural maga- 

 zines, with the special feature of presenting their readers with beautifully 

 coloured illustrations of new and rare plants, flowers, and fruit. The 

 Gardenefs Magazine is both instructive and amusing, and the Horticultural 

 Record represents the cheap press in horticultural literature, being 

 exceedingly moderate in price, and crammed full of noteworthy matter. 

 The Timber Trades Journal, with the persevering energy and marked 

 ability which have distinguished it from the begmning, pursues its course 

 successfully in furnishing the latest information upon the home and foreign 

 timber trade, and giving very full returns of the state of the timber mar- 

 ket, and the prices realized at all the leading sales, as well as much general 

 information of special value to foresters, timber merchants, builders, and 

 others. With much energy, conspicuous tact, and ability, the Agricultural 

 Gazette supports the farming interests of the country ; to which important 

 feature of rural economy the Farmer's Magazine contributes a due share of 

 instructive matter. The amusement and instruction derived from Land 

 and Water is highly appreciated by all true sportsmen ; its pages over- 

 flow with geniality, manly enthusiasm, and good feeling. The Journal 

 of A])2}lied Science treats of every imaginable science as applied to rural 

 economy and the industrial arts. 



Our only contemporary on Forestry in the English tongue. The Indian 

 Forester, Calcutta, continues to illustrate the forestry of the Indian Empire 

 with much ability, and to disseminate an amount of valuable and instructive 



