EDITOR'S TABLE. 



Notice. — We shall esteem it an especial favor if letters and papers intended for the editor, 

 are always addressed to him at Germantown (Philadeliihia), Pennsylvania. 



James D. Fulton, one "of the ablest nurserymen, who died suddenly within a few weeks, 

 has left a reputation for sterling integrity. We shall insert an obituary of him in January. 



The Packing Book. — In the business part of a periodical, circulating from Canada to Cali- 

 fornia, sending after small sums involves the destruction of the work ; on such a plan, the 

 Ilorticidturist would entirely be broken up. With the knowledge of this before them, the 

 several publishers have been compelled to adopt the plan of thi-owing aside the packing book 

 at the end of each year, and of opening a new one as subscribers indicated their wishes. This 

 plan it is necessary to pursue ; with the present number almost all subscriptions cease, and 

 renewals are hoped for. If, in this process, any one feels slighted, the publisher will regret 

 it as much as the reader, and we hope to hear that no such case has occurred. If all will 

 communicate their wishes fully and freely, we shall have another year's pleasant chat with 

 our old readers, not one of whom will it be agreeable to part from. 



We trust all will give notice of deficiencies or omissions of every kind. 



Close of the Volume. — We close the twelfth volume of the Uoriiculturist with some feel- 

 ings of satisfaction at its success, with others of regret. It has pui'sued its way, the past 

 year, with the usual endeavor on the part of its proprietor, editor, and contributors, to make 

 it readable and useful ; the best evidences that it has the approval of its friends, have been 

 received in a continued flow of new patrons, no less than its cordial reception by thousands 

 of older readers, who have marked their friendship by successful endeavors to introduce it 

 among their neighbors. The regret is founded upon the altered condition of the times, which 

 has thrown many out of employment, and doubtless has interfered with the pecuniary means 

 of some who peruse our varied pages, and to whom we shall liave something to say in our 

 next volume. 



This regret is softened, however, by remembering that our subscribers are mostly inde- 

 pendent residents of the country, who, if they have sulfered by the times, have done so in 

 a less degree than citizens. If the former have lost some of their resources, they have re- 

 maining their acres for future tillage — their trees for future fruit — their gardens and nurse- 

 ries for certain returns. The storm which blew over our commercial emporiums, though of 

 human creation, may be likened to a sudden hurricane, the portents of which were visible, 

 but unheeded ; the wind breaking the glass of storekeepers, awnings smasliing neighbor's 

 heads, and the rain pouring in everywhere, to ruin and destroy the merchandise. Losses 

 too great to be enumerated, fell heavily upon all densely crowded populations ; but " the 

 country is safe," prices are still highly remunerative, and we may safely congratulate most 

 members of our country community upon their condition and prospects. 



And yet, such is the sympathy of all classes with the panic-stricken commercial 



