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ACCORDING to the dictionary the 
Our Jubilee. Jubilee was — blast of the 
uncing the grand 
sabbatical year of the "Hebrew nation. After 
times at every hundredth year, at others at 
every tg de year. We take it, then, 
th 
that there is reason {о prevent 
our assuming our forty-sixth year and our 
two thousand fou and first number e 
be our jubilee, and thus, like patriots. 
make our jubilee coincide with that of Her Most 
Gracious MAJESTY. 
On January 2, 1841, the first number of this 
journal saw the light. We are tempted to 
give some е ааг р programme, 
and to add some | аз to our subsequent 
progress and development, which we hope will 
show the reader that we, faithful to our original 
programme, have been 
—— “ever reaping something new.” 
` The Laureate m must excuse us if we paraphrase 
his earlier words as more applicable to our 
position and fee lings than. his later wailings. 
ng, then, from our ori 
ri interesting to find that in 1841 
IBN Wis wrote —- 
ing in T its numerous branches formis 
economy, are the points towards which our attention 
will be more региону direct ed. р 
м The humblest branch ‘of РСР is essentially 
er e upon phy siological principles, and the w hole 
advances in exact proportion to our knowledge 
et the laws that regulate the general economy of 
vegetable li life, 
“The embellishment of gardens is magi in pro- 
portion to the E of new flow чав ате 
1 foreign climates “the: uccessful 
upon hê skill 
to 
imitated ; the imitation of 
тїз of heating, es 
nd other processes of the natur 
the latter involve necessity of som rere rr 
with the laws of heat and of the wit: of fluids. 
*'The art of ide ib would soon be deprived of 
all novelty and interest if iut vere ad for the daily 
m ern of Le as 
they arise to де abes of уйа Г r these 
е мы tA S tonat botany en 
s ha А нн or useful p are M rned), an 
vegeta chemistry are hte especially шн» 
upon which information may be constantly expected. 
" The actual condition of gardeners and the c 
of the education the о receive in sever 
fit them for falling the duties of the station will 
constantly сиру ourattention. Ме think that there 
is room bey ry great improvement in a gardener's 
educatio on would tend 
rsonal comfort and 
q 
education, Mer that such 
essentially to eph bot 
his value to his 
be forgotten that their employers have also rule 
which require to be considered, and we shall not be 
disposed to overlook either the one or t 
‘The gardening and agriculture of the British 
Colonies will constantly receive our serious atten- 
ti The imp nt of their na ve resources is 
becoming every year of more im 
rust to render them yide od service 
by calling their attention either to the best p of 
quii MEE the plants they alre: the 
which they may derive new and saabe 
species d vantage of exciting а nae 
of inquiry i into these subjects, has у 
sibly felt in British India, and cannot fail to Ye 
арргесі by degrees in all our other foreign ie 
sessions. Our t object, in fine, will be to 
r,in the truest sense of th 
se o 
right, and maintaining by 
very pro ze ge ,the legitimate interests of all 
ا‎ of knowledge connected with the subjects 
to which our journal is devoted. 
Our widely extended circulation in every 
quarter of the globe bears the best testimony 
that we have acted up to our 
demanded: but now for a little more retros 
The winter of 1840, and specially that portion 
of it in which the preparations were being most 
е made for the advent of this journal, 
to have been somewhat like that through 
huh we are now passing, and we take it as a 
happy om: 
T Miserable weather in London, severe frost, 
and a great deal of snow, the thermometer 
registering 19? of frost, and on January 3a terrific 
storm "— such are the memoranda now before us of 
one who took an active part in the work of the 
> Chronicle at that time. 
liminary business w ucted 
the Atheneum, but very shortly the work was 
erred to 3, Charles Street, Coven 
which, as in the case of many a garden plant, 
has since changed its name to 41, Wellington 
Street, The object of the promoters is pithily 
expressed in a letter before us— us—“ to giv e a higher 
tone and a better direction to horticulture. 
was a tower of strength in those 
days, and he was aided by РАхтох, and later by 
LEY and ТномАв MOORE, and most of the 
het quidne 2G Man _ those 
have gone to their rest, but we are 
to know thatthe loyalty of some has been proof 
against the lapse of time and the vicissitudes of 
change; and that while constant new reinforce- 
ments of necessity are made, some few of our 
contributors of 1841 and those among the most 
honored, still remain in our list of correspodents. 
As is always the case in a new venture much 
trouble and anxiety were experienced over the 
first number, The paper was reset five times to 
see how it would look! To our eyes now it looks 
solid and heavy and lacking variety, neither was 
there much of it, as we should think now, and 
the illustrations were indeed few and far between, 
Nevertheless, the number of copies printed of the 
first issue was about 3,250, which was thought 
very large in those days, but which is small 
indeed compared to the numbers to be issued 
to-day. In fact, the first number had to be re- 
printed, and {той week to week the increase 
was steady, so that a great success was scored 
At that time some eighteen or twenty columns. 
only, but of painfully small type, were devoted to 
horticulture, and, as 
were only given at rare intervals, and t 
the most meagre quality. Some twenty ba 
of general news were also added. In 1844 the 
paper was enlarged, and the Agricult 
then, as now, tnder the editorship of our loyal 
and frank-hearted friend, J. С. — formed 
an integral portion of the paper r 1869 
thenewspaper portion, which by general inten) 
had been well done, eliminated, partly 
because il. penny daily papers rendered our 
summaries unnecessary, but mainly because of 
the urgent necessity of devoting more space to 
horticulture proper. In 1874 similar reasons 
ed us to sever our connection with the Agricul- 
tural Gazette, and as the yearly volumes had 
come inconveniently bulky half - yearly 
ea were adopted. These arrangements 
gave considerable additional space, and we 
were per thenceforward very largely to 
the number of our illustrations, for the 
fidelity and permanent value of which we have 
received abundant testimony from those most 
qualified to judge. 
In the meantime competition became fiercer 
and fiercer, The interest in horticulture has so 
extended, that where two or three papers once 
sufficed, now there are nine or ten, each, we dare 
say, with a circulation as large as, and in some cases 
much larger than, was the case with ourselves 
or any of our contemporaries in 1841, 
As circulation extends, and competition in- 
creases, the requirements of the reader, and the 
expenses of production augment, but in an in- 
creased ratio, This is the universal rul 
takings of the present day, and the pr is the 
gainer, To meet these new conditio 
have entered on a new phase of ко atit and 
venture to hope that by their continued aid, we 
may be able to say, that which we have done is 
but earnest of that which we shall do, 
OF CYCAS CIRCINALIS (see 
Supplement) ~ The group of trees of Cycas етн: 
own in our suppl lementary sheet i is "өн of а 
$ 
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Botanical Garden, and which were ipei for 
the ed neon of ornamenting the court of that colony, 
illustrating its vegetable ct at € 
late Indo-Colonial Exhibition. The tree: 
one of the houses of the Royal Horticultural Society 
iswick, and es we believe, at the 
——— is common, They are 
o. 
we have said, p prc 
of á 
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