552 LITERATURE OF GARDENING. 



proved a very competent editor ; not only did he write 

 clear, sound, and forcible leaders, many of them brilliant 

 and beyond what some had hitherto thought gardening 

 literature capable of bearing, but he drew around him as 

 contributors many of the best spirits of the gardening 

 world. It is a source of much pleasure to me while 

 penning this retrospect to remember that I had the 

 privilege of reckoning Loudon, Lindley, and Paxton 

 among my early friends, and later on Dr Hogg, who is 

 still happily living, in what may, I think, be fairly called 

 the golden age of garden literature. But the " Gardeners' 

 Chronicle," issued weekly, did not long occupy this field 

 alone. In 1848 appeared "The Cottage Gardener," by 

 G. W. Johnson, one of the soundest and best writers on 

 gardening the age has produced, and whose loss we have 

 but recently been called upon to mourn. This periodical, 

 changed in title in 1861 to the "Journal of Horticulture," 

 and for some time past edited by Dr Hogg, who had 

 previously assisted Mr Johnson in his editorial duties, 

 at once attained a large circulation, and. now deservedly 

 holds a very high position among authoritative works. 

 " The Gardeners' Magazine," edited by Shirley Hibberd, 

 is also an excellent weekly periodical of long standing ; 

 and "The Garden," edited by William Robinson, also 

 published weekly, is an elegant work enjoying a large and 

 high-class circulation. " Gardening Illustrated," " Garden 

 Work," "Amateur Gardening," "The Gardening World," 

 and the " Horticultural Times," are also useful and cheap 

 weeklies ; so that now there are no less than nine weekly 

 periodicals on gardening published in England. 



Of recent but not living writers we must not over- 

 look DONALD BEATON and ROBERT FISH, and further, 



ROGERS. 1837 .... Vegetables and Fruits. 



RIVERS, T. 1837 . . . Roses and Fruits. 



TOWERS. 1839. . . . General Gardening. 



AYRES. 1850 .... 



GORDON. 1858 . . . Coniferse. 



