IV PREFACE. 



invited our friends to transmit us such reports in season, we 

 have not been furnished with complete returns from all the Socie- 

 ties. This is, however, but the beginning; so far as we have given 

 them we believe they will be found of great interest. 



As expressed by us, in the preface to the Second Volume, it was 

 our intention to have given some plans of green and hot-houses in 

 the Third Volume; but, from various circumstances, we have been 

 unable to conform to our wishes. We have in view several plans, 

 and shall probably give some of them in the course of the next 

 volume. The ground plans of gardens, which we also had intend- 

 ed to give, have been deferred, from the same causes as the others. 

 An increased circulation, however, will enable us to carry into ex- 

 ecution every thing we have proposed. 



The progress of horticulture and floriculture has been rapidly 

 progressive; — new gardens have sprung up in all sections of the 

 country. The West — the great West — where soil and climate are 

 so much more adapted to vegetation — where, a few years since, a 

 cultivated garden did not exist — already abounds in beautiful resi- 

 dences. The South, too, — though it has not kept pace with the Mid- 

 dle and Eastern States — has improved in its taste for horticulture, 

 and a more frequent intercourse with the cultivators of the North 

 will enable her to enrich her beautiful plantations with all the fine 

 fruits and beautiful flowers which abound in their gardens. Our 

 Magazine affords a medium for the interchange of sentiments, and 

 we trust that our correspondents will improve the opportunity. 

 With a wider circulation we shall be enabled to make our Maga- 

 zine more useful, and better adapted to all parts of the Union. 

 May we hope that our efforts will continue to be such as will give 

 us the support of every horticulturist. 



We offer our most cordial thanks to our correspondents and 

 readers, and solicit a continuance of their favors. 



C. M. H. 

 Boston, JVbt). 21, 1837. 



