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Price Threepence ; Stamped Fourpence. 

 THE 



JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE, 



COTTAGE GAEDENEE, 



AND 



COTHSTTR-Y GJ- E 1ST T IL E! 1VT ^ 1ST, 

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



AND 



EGBERT HOGG, LL.D., F.K.H.S., 



Assisted by a Staff of the lest Writers on Practical Gardening, and nume- 

 rous Correspondents engaged in the pursuit of Horticulture and Rural 

 Affairs 



This Publication forms a New Series of that old-established and popular 

 Periodical "THE COTTAGE GARDENER," permanently 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 Merchant, the 

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

 the Nobility and Gentry. Out-door and In-door Gardening, both econo- 

 mical and decorative, are fully discussed, as well as Forcing, Landscape 

 Gardening, Arboriculture, and more particularly Fruit-tree Culture, and 

 the Science of Pomology. 



The Horticultural Department consists of all the operations of the Fruit, 

 Flower, and Kitchen Garden ; Notices of all the New Fruits, Flowers, and 

 Vegetables; Arboriculture; Landscape Gardening, and Garden Archi- 

 tecture ; descriptions of all the newest Inventions in Garden Structures, 

 Tools, and Implements; and a detail of work to be done in each depart- 

 ment during every week In the year. 



In Rural and Domestic Economy, it treats of the Farm and Poultry-yard ; 

 Allotment Farming ; the Dairy ; the Pigeon-house ; and Rabbit and Bee- 

 keeping. The Treatment of Soils, Manures, Cropping, and Rotation 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, and embrace Zoology, Geology, Mineralogy, 

 Meteorology, and Physiological, Structural, Systematic, and Popular 

 Botany. 



Biographies and Portraits of the most celebrated Horticulturists. 



Reviews of New Books relating to the above subjects ; Reports of Horti- 

 cultural and Poultry Societies' Meetings throughout the Country ; and 

 Scientific Notices. 



To ADVERTISERS, the JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE will be found a valu- 

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

 middle and higher classes. 



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