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George Glenny, for some time Editor of "The 

 Gardeners' Gazette" and "The Horticultural Journal," 

 and author of many Treatises and Papers on "Florists' 

 Flowers," was a clear and forcible writer, and helped much 

 to popularise that particular branch of the art. 



The " Pomological Magazine," begun in 1827, is now 

 usually met with in 3 vols. ; it contains coloured plates 

 and descriptions of many of our best fruits. 



"The Florist," commenced by Edward Beck in 1848, 

 closed in 1882. As I was for some time part proprietor of 

 this periodical I will only say that contributions to its 

 pages were made by some of our soundest and best writers 

 on gardening, and the illustrations of fruits and flowers were 

 generally acknowledged to be faithful representations 

 creditably executed. 



Other works of this period entitled to high commenda- 

 tion are Stewart's "Planter's Guide" (1829), Johnson's 

 'History of Gardening" (1829), M'Intosh's "Practical 

 Gardener" (1828), MMntosh's "The Book of the Garden" 

 (1853), Chandler's "Camellia Japonica" (1831), and Thomp- 

 son's " Gardener's Assistant" (1859). 



From about the year 1840 I was in a position to see 

 every book on gardening as it issued from the press, and 

 many books of earlier date which I had not previously 

 seen. I remember one little book which, speaking from 

 memory, was entitled " Outlines of the First Principles of 

 Horticulture," by John Lindley. Lindley was a systematic 

 and physiological botanist, and he utilised his physiological 

 knowledge in the construction of this little book. The 

 principles there laid down, afterwards extended in "The 

 Theory of Horticulture " and in the pages of " The Gar- 

 deners' Chronicle " by the same author, laid open to the 

 practical gardener sure grounds of procedure which raised 

 horticulture to the rank of a science. 



The publication of the "Gardeners' Chronicle" in 1841 

 by Paxton, Lindley, and others gave a considerable im- 

 petus to the Art and Science of gardening. Lindley 



