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PREFACE 



XHE Fourth Volume of the Gardener's Magazine contains a num- 

 ber of additional facts on the important subject of heating hot- 

 houses by hot water, and a various and extended correspondence 

 on all the subjects which the work embraces. 



In the list of authors of this and the three preceding Volumes, 

 will be found above a hundred and fifty names of practical gar- 

 deners who have never before written in any publication. Inde- 

 pendently of the useful facts which these writers have communicated 

 to their professional brethren, the circumstance of having excited 

 so many individuals to write for the first time, must, we think, be 

 considered as attesting the utility of the Gardener's Magazine ; 

 because to induce gardeners to think and to write, is to open up to 

 them new exercises for the mind, a higher class of wishes to be 

 gratified, and, in consequence, a degree of happiness increased in 

 proportion to the exertions necessary for the gratification of these 

 wish.es. 



It will be seen also, that in this Fourth Volume the number of 

 foreign correspondents has increased, a fact which cannot but be 

 gratifying to every reader and every writer ; to the former, because 

 the universality of any taste or pursuit is a proof of its congeniality 

 to the human mind ; and to the latter, because whatever may have 

 been the motive for coming before the public, the end will be an- 

 swered in proportion as that public is numerous and extended. 



Writing this preface during our progress on a Continental tour, 

 we can assure our correspondents, from personal observation, 

 that they are not without readers either in France or Germany ; 

 and that, besides here and there amateurs and practical gardeners 

 who peruse the Magazine regularly as published, many of the ar- 

 ticles it contains have been translated and circulated in the French 

 and German languages. The notes which we are now taking will 

 appear in our succeeding Volume, and from these it will be found 

 that the gardeners of the Continent can, in return, give some use- 

 ful lessons to those of Britain. Our part is to be the herald and 

 recorder of gardening improvements, whatever may be the country 

 which has given them birth, and to promote the interest of gar- 

 deners and amateurs of the art, first in Britain as our home, and 

 next throughout the world as the abode of our friends. 



J. C. L. 



Munich, Nov, 2. 1828. 



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