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their counsel and experience, for which every younger and 

 less experienced member of the fraternity should be truly 

 grateful. 



In horticultural literature there has been great improve- 

 ment within the last few years, not so much as Ave could 

 desire, but sufficient to indicate considerable progress. 

 Hovey's Magazine of Horticulture is the only living rep- 

 resentative of its kind that dates more than thirty years 

 ago. S-everal others have been started since that time, but 

 only two out of the number have survived until the pres- 

 ent day. The Horticulturist^ commenced by the much 

 lamented A. J. Downing, in 1846, and the Gardener'' s 

 llonthly^ started in 1859, complete the list, witli the ex- 

 ception of the American Journal of Horticulture^ the first 

 number of which is dated January 1st, 1867. 



Although our horticultui'al journals are not vei-y num6r- 

 ous, their efficienc}^ has more than made up for any lack in 

 numbers. But we have not beoji entirely dependent upon 

 them for the dissemination of knowledge upon this sub- 

 ject, as there ai-e many other periodicals, devoted princi- 

 pally to Agriculture and other rural topics, that have 

 contributed immensely to the general fund of infor- 

 mation. Among the most prominent of these are the 

 American AgriGidturist^ New York ; Rural New Yorker^ 

 Rochester, N. Y. ; American Farmer^ Rochester, N. Y. ; 

 Working Farmer^ New York ; American Farmer^ Bal- 

 tmiorc^, Md. ; Rural World, St. Louis, jMo. ; T//e New 

 York Trihime, New York ; Germantoicn Telegraph, Ger- 

 mantown, Pa.; 3Ia,ine Farmer, Augusta, Me.; Prairie 

 Farm^er, Chicago, Til. ; Tfie (^ountry Gentlenuni and The 



