HORTICULTURE. 



I 



INTRODUCTORY. 



July, 1846. 



BRIGHT and beautiful June! Embroidered with clusters of 

 odorous roses, and laden with ruddy cherries and strawberries ; 

 rich with the freshness of spring, and the luxuriance of summer, 

 leafy June ! If any one's heart does not swell with the unwritten 

 thoughts that belong to this season, then is he only fit for " treasons, 

 stratagems and spoils." He does not practically believe that " God 

 made the country" 



Flora and Pomona, from amid the blossoming gardens and 

 orchards of June, smile graciously as we write these few intro- 

 ductory words to their circle of devotees. Happy are we to know 

 that it is not to us a new or strange circle, but to feel that large 

 numbers of our readers are already congenial and familiar spirits. 

 Angry volumes of politics have we written none; but peaceful 

 books, humbly aiming to weave something more into the fair gar- 

 land of the beautiful and useful, that encircles this excellent old 

 Earth. 



To the thousands, who have kindly made our rural volumes part 

 of their household library, we offer this new production, which be- 

 gins to unfold itself now, in the midsummer of the year. In its 

 pages, from month to month, we shall give them a collection of all 



