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PREFACE. 



In this Tenth Volume we have complied with the unanimous request 

 of our readers, and with the spirit of the times, in bringing out the 

 Gardeners Magazine monthly and at a reduced price ; and the suc- 

 cess of this measure, we are happy to say, has fully answered our 

 expectations. 



The improvements which we contemplate in the succeeding 

 Volumes are as follows : — 1. An occasional article to be headed 

 Pomological Notices, or Notices of new Fruits deserving, or seeming 

 to deserve, general cultivation ; 2. Olitorial Notices, or Notices of 

 new Culinary Vegetables, either originated in this country, or intro- 

 duced from other countries, which seem to merit, or have been proved 

 to deserve, general introduction in kitchen-gardens ; and 3. Arbori- 

 cultural Notices, or Notices of new species or varieties of hardy Trees 

 or Shrubs, useful or ornamental, which merit a place in shrubberies 

 or pleasure-grounds, as hedge plants, or in useful plantations. 



To aid us in perfecting these Notices, the Council of the Horticul- 

 tural Society of London have kindly granted us permission to apply, 

 from time to time, for information, to their head gardener, Mr. Munro, 

 and to their fruit-gardener, Mr. Thompson ; and we have received the 

 same indulgence from the Council of the Caledonian Horticultural 

 Society, with reference to their head gardener, Mr. Barnet. We have 

 directed the attention of all our foreign correspondents to these stand- 

 ing articles ; and we earnestly request the assistance of the secretaries 

 of all horticultural societies, of the curators of all botanic gardens, of 

 all nurserymen, domestic and foreign, and, in short, of every gardener 

 and amateur of gardening, in order that we may render them as com- 

 plete as possible. 



We intend, in future Numbers of this Magazine, to direct particularly 

 the attention of our readers to the more general distribution of foreign 

 hardy trees and shrubs in our pleasure-grounds and plantations. We 

 cannot help regretting that the taste of amateurs should be so much 

 absorbed in the acquisition of temporary novelties, chiefly of herbaceous 



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