^OUMAL OF RURAL ART AND RURAL TASTE. 



Cjir !lkEiikrt[ Tin ktinrrtt lOnrtiriiltiirt m\ Slgtirultiin. 



TIJHAT !" exclaim our readers, " a division between the two primal occupations 

 "** of man, born of one parent, educated in tbe same school, with one common 

 purpose, one destiny ?" Certainly. By common acceptance, gardening and farming 

 are as far asunder as the poles — the zenith and the nadir. And for the simple reason 

 only, that people, in their ignorance, or prejudice, choose to make them so. There 

 has existed, and still exists, in the minds of a great multitude of people, an ideal and 

 insurmountable wall between these twin professions, and which must continue to sepa- 

 rate them so long as ignorance and prejudice, instead of light and intelligence, con- 

 trol. 



It has been one chief aim of " The Horticulturist" to familiarize the arts of 

 horticulture, planting, building, and the subordinate occupations attending them, to 

 the attention and understanding of everybody who has at all to do with the cultiva- 

 tion of ground; to carry them into every household, and homestead, and into every 

 farmery in the land — provided their occupants would take and read our paper, and 

 profit by the instruction it contains. Let us examine : The stalwart, plodding, strait- 

 forward farmer, unfamiliar with our pages, looking merely at our title and vignette, 

 imagines it to smell of rose-water and perfume ; stitched in a dainty cover and talk- 

 ing some sort of sublimated nonsense, to people who have more money to spend than 

 they know what to do with, and therefore employ it in the erection of all sorts of 

 fanciful buildings for all imaginable and useless purposes ; to stock their gardens with 

 all varieties of ncAV and worthless plants, vegetables, and fruits ; to plant their open 

 grounds with foreign trees and shrubs, which nobody knows an English name for — in 

 short, to promote the practice and cultivation of things beyond the reach of the or- 

 dinai'y farmer, and useless to either his legitimate occupation or enjoyment. 



ow, no honest man ever made a greater mistake. The difference between 

 arts of Agriculture and Horticulture, farming and gardening, to employ 



Nov. 1, 1852. 



No. XI. 



