PREFACE. 



The present Volume completes the Second of the New Series, 

 and the Twelfth of the entire work. 



In this volume, having brought to a close our series of articles 

 upon European Gaidens and Gardening, we have found more 

 room to devote to our correspondents, and also to our pomological 

 articles. Some excellent papers have been contributed, on Pomol- 

 ogy, by our correspondent, Mr. Humrickhouse, particularly in 

 relation to an uniform nomenclature for fruits, (p. 47.) We have 

 brought up our Notices of New Fruits, and have also given the 

 descriptions and drawings of eighteen varieties of pears, embrac- 

 ing some new, very little known, and choice kinds. Our Flori- 

 cultural articles have not been quite so numerous and varied as in 

 some of the preceding volumes, but we shall devote more atten- 

 tion to this department in the next volume. The cultivation of 

 fruit seems to be the absorbing interest, and we have endeavored 

 to offer as much information upon the subject as possible. 



Our first article on Ornamental Trees will be found in the 

 present volume, (p. 58,) and it may be taken as an example of 

 what we intend to accom[)lish hereafter. One of the most valuable 

 papers is that upon the Cultivation of the Grape in what are term- 

 ed Cold-houses, by Mr. Russell; in connection with the descrip- 

 tions and engravings of Mr. Gray's Graperies, we may view it as 

 one of the most important we have ever published. The curvi- 

 linear plan of building is admirably adapted to graperies, and we 

 are gratified to find so many gentlemen have already adopted it. 

 If to this plan, the Polmaise mode of heating can be applied suc- 

 cessfully in our climate, grapes may be produced from June to 

 December, in the greatest perfection. 



The Reviews, and the Miscellaneous Intelligence, afford a 

 variety of useful information. A new feature has been introduced, 

 by which questions upon every department of Horticulture will be 

 fully answered; and this we hope to make highly instructive to 

 every reader. 



And now, again, we appeal to all lovers of the science, especi- 

 ally in New England, to give us their aid. It is our aim to make 

 the Magazine the first among the Horticultural publications of the 

 day. 



C. M. H. 

 Boston, Dec. 4, 1816. 



