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PREFACE. 



The first volume of the Gardener's Magazine being completed, 

 the purchasers of it will naturally, and very properly, compare its 

 contents with the plan and promises held forth in the Prospectus. 

 We invite them to do so. This may appear presumption or vanity : 

 it would be so, were we not indebted to our contributors for having 



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been enabled to carry into execution that plan and those promises. 

 That our contributors are neither few nor unknown, that they are 

 well qualified to be of essential service to the cause in which we 

 are embarked, the list of them subjoined will amply testify. 



We had two grave objects in view ; — to disseminate new and im- 

 portant information on all topics connected with horticulture, and 

 to raise the intellect and the character of those engaged in this 

 art. That these objects have been furthered even during the short 

 period of this Magazine's existence, we cannot doubt, when we 

 consider the number of subjects treated of in original articles, the 

 quantity of valuable matter condensed in the reviews, the great 

 variety of miscellaneous intelligence, foreign and domestic, and 

 even the implements, new fruits, addresses of garden artists and 

 artisans, titles of books on gardening, and rural subjects, recorded 

 in the advertising department. A number of the books from 

 which information is drawn are in foreign languages ; and others, 

 from their prices, out of the reach of most readers, and especially 

 of those readers to whom their use would be the greatest. 



• As the object of the Gardener's Magazine is the dissemination 

 of useful knowledge ; its subjects inexhaustible as the vegetable 

 kingdom, and among the most interesting that concern domestic 

 life ; its plan calculated to procure information from every pos- 

 sible source at home or abroad ; its contributors belonging to every 

 department of gardening and botany ; and its conductor devoted 

 to the subject, from inclination no less than interest, its readers 

 may reasonably expect it to improve as it advances. At all events, 

 they may rely that no exertion will be wanting on the part of its 

 conductor to render it of real service to gardening and gardeners, 

 and worthy a continuation of that encouragement which it has 

 received. 



J. C. L. 



Bnyswatcr, London, Sept. 182& 



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