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REVIEWS. 



Art. I. The Philadelphia Florist and Horticultural Jour- 

 nal : a Magazine of Horticulture^ Botany, Agriculture, 

 and the Kindred Sciences. Conducted by a Committee of 

 Practical Gardeners. R. Robinson Scott, Editor. Month- 

 ly nos., 8vo, 32 pp.. and a colored plate. Nos. 1 and 2 for 

 May and June. 



A GAY looking periodical, with the Victorm regia displaying 

 its huge petals on the nice yellow cover, called by the 

 above title, has been issued by our Philadelphia friends, con- 

 ducted by an association of practical men. Two numbers, 

 May and June, are now before us ; one ornamented with a 

 colored lithograph of the beautiful Dicentra spectablis, and 

 the other with one of the Nepenthes Raffles?a«a. 



The committee in their " apologetic " address state, as one 

 of the reasons why the Philadelphia amateurs and florists 

 need a journal of this kind, " that they require an organ 

 strictly local, the exponent of their wants, that depend upon 

 latitude and longitude, and the peculiarities of the season." 



The Editor thinks that the Horticulturist, and our Maga- 

 zine, will do very well for the north ; but there is so much 

 difference between Albany and Philadelphia, the former city 

 being " earlier and later by just one lunar month," and as 

 " the same exotics cannot be raised in the two places, or 

 require a totally different treatment," it is necessary that the 

 florists should have a journal of the kind ; as they were 

 "literally alone between Albany and New Orleans." 



If this is really the truth, why we are doubly pleased to 

 announce its appearance. We hail every new publication of 

 the kind, as another laborer in the field where there is plenty 

 to do and enough to gather up. For if the Florist, at the 

 cost of one dollar, teaches an amateur how to garden more 

 successfully, why of course he will find that two, paid for 

 our Magazine, will increase his success in an equal ratio. If 

 an earnest, zealous lover of horticulture, one magazine would 



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