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THK CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



the efforts of the Directors to maintain 

 a monthly periodical devoted to the 

 dissemination in Canada of information 

 concerning horticultural matters, most 

 sincere and hearty thanks are hereby 

 given. It is believed by them that 

 such a monthly periodical is essential 

 to the horticultural progress and pros- 

 perity of the country, and that any 

 effort made to extend its circulation 

 deserves the thanks of everyone who 

 desires to see this country take the po- 

 sition it is capable of maintaining in all 

 fruit-o^rowinff and horticultural matters. 

 It is the intention of the Directors 

 to cojitinue the Canadian Horticulturist 

 during the year 1883, and to make it 

 as attractive and interesting as it has 

 beer; during the past year, and as much 

 more so as the means at their disposal 

 will permit. If the circulation could 

 be increased to four thousand, the addi- 

 tional means deriye4 therefrom would 

 be expended ii^ still further enlarging 

 and embellishing the magazine. Will 

 not oiir readers make an effort to accom- 

 plish this desirable object by sending 

 one new subscriber with their own 

 renewal before the close of this year, 

 so that the Directors may feel enabled 

 to begin the year witii an additional 

 number of pages of reading matter, and 

 make arrangements for increased illus- 

 tration. If each subscriber would pro- 

 cure but one new name the circulation 

 would then be about four thousand, 

 and such improvements could then be 

 made as the Directors have not yet 

 been able to secure for want of means. 

 Every subscriber becomes entitled 

 to receive not only the Canadian Hor- 



ticulturist every month, but also a copy 

 of the Annual Report of the Fruit 

 Growers' Association for 1882, and 

 bound with it, the Annual Report of 

 the Entomological Society for the same 

 year. In addition to these, each sub- 

 scriber will have sent to him by mail, 

 post-paid, whichever of the following 

 articles he may prefer, namely : 



A Rose Busb, or 



A Peonia, or 



A Vine of the Worden G-rape, or 



A Plant of the Niagara Raspberry. 



In order that a sufficient number of 

 these reports and plants may be secured 

 to meet the requirements of subscribers, 

 it is essential that subscriptions should 

 be sent in before the first of January 

 next. The Directors cannot promise 

 that those whose subscriptions are 

 received after that day will be supplied 

 as they might wish. The edition of 

 the Reports was exhausted this year, 

 so that those who sent in their names 

 at a late day may have failed to receive 

 a bound copy. And the same was true 

 of some of the plants distributed last 

 spring. That all disappointment from 

 these causes may be avoided, the Direc- 

 tors wish it to be clearly understood that 

 subscribers whose names are received 

 after the first of January next, must 

 not depend upon receiving the reports 

 or plants. The Directors will do all 

 in their power to meet the wishes of 

 any who subscribe after that date, but 

 cannot promise anything more tbAn the 

 current numbers of the magazmo. 



Those who may desire to make an 

 effort to increafift th« circulation of the 



