First-class Weekly Illustrated Gardening Publication, 



Price Threepence ; Stamped, Fourpence. 



THE JOUKNAL OP HORTICULTURE, 



COTTAGE GARDENER, 



AND 



COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, 



EDITED BY GEOEGE W. JOHNSON, F.E.H.S., 



AND 



EOBEET HOGG, LL.D., F.L.S., 



Assisted by a Staff of the Best Writers on Practical Gardening, and Numerous 

 Correspondents engaged in the pursuit of Horticulture and llural Affairs. 



THIS Publication some time since commenced a New Series of that old- 

 established and popular Periodical " THE COTTAGE GARDENER," per 

 manently increased to Thirty-two Pages, and richly illustrated with 

 "Wood Engravings in the highest style of the Art. 



The subjects treated on embrace every department of Gardening, 

 and Rural and Domestic Economy ; from the small plot and allotment 

 of the Cottager to the villa garden of the Country Gentleman and Mer- 

 chant, the grounds of the Parsonage-house, and the more extensive 

 establishments of the Nobility and Gentry. 



The Horticultural Department consists of all Out-door and In-door 

 Operations of the Fruit, Flower, and Kitchen Garden ; Notices of all 

 the New Fruits, Flowers, and Vegetables; Arboriculture, and more 

 particularly Fruit Tree Culture and Pomology ; Landscape Gardening 

 and Garden Architecture ; Descriptions of all the Newest Inventions in 

 Garden Structures, Tools, and Implements ; and a Detail of "Work to be 

 done in each Department during every week in the year. 



In Eural and Domestic Economy it treats of the Farm and Poultry- 

 yard ; Allotment Farming ; the Dairy ; the Pigeon-house ; and Eabbit 

 and Bee-keeping. The Treatment of Soils, Manures, Cropping, and 

 Eotation of Crops. Brewing ; Wine-making ; Vegetable Cookery, and 

 the Preserving of Fruits and Vegetables. 



Natural History and Botany, so far as they relate to Gardening and 

 Husbandry, are amply treated on; and embrace Zoology, Geology, 

 Mineralogy, Meteorology, and Physiological, Structural, Systematic, 

 and Popular Botany, 



Biographies and Portraits of the most celebrated Horticulturists. 



Eeviews of New Books relating to the above subjects Reports of 

 Horticultural and Poultry Societies' Meetings throughout the country ; 

 and Scientific Notices. 



To ADVERTISERS the JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE will be found a 

 valuable and effective medium, from the extent of its circulation among 

 the middle and higher classes. 



A SPECIMEN NUMBER FREE BY POST FOR FOUR STAMPS. 



JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE & COTTAGE GARDENER OFFICE, 

 171, FLEET STEEET, LONDON, E.G.; 



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