July 13. 1877. 1 JOUBNAL OF HORTICULTUEE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



TO OUll READERS, 



Praise totally unexpected and disinterested is the superlative of commendation. The 

 celebrated beautiful Duchess of Devonshire said, " No compliment ever equalled that of the 

 coalheaver who asked me to let him light his i^ipe by my eves." One of our Editors travelling 

 in Wales saw a cottager reading " our Journal" as she sat in the sunshine before her door, 

 and who said in answer to a query, " We could not get on without this Journal." Nor is 

 the aid we are able to afford confined to the British Isles, for we have letters asking for 

 information from the Cape of Good Hope and from the Himalayas, and the day Ave wrote these 

 words we received the following letter from Canada: — 



" Ecceut articles in the Journal show that this Ontario of ours is not such a far-off province 

 as to be beyond the reach of your interest and influsnce, so I have sent you by this mail the prize 

 list and regulations for our horticultural shows here, thinking it might interest you to know a 

 little of what is being done here in that direction. For my own part, I know, I look forward month 

 by mouth to the arrival of my " Cottage Gabdener," for it speaks to me of home and all I left 

 behind me there." 



Such testimonies are most gratifying, and we again thank our contributors for enabling 

 us to say without self-laudation that we know that the commendations are merited and that 

 they will continue to be deserved. 



