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« LA SEMAINE HORTICOLE. > 
It gives me pleasure to announce to the subscribers to the Lindenia that I am putting 
into execution a project which I have cherished and thought over for a very long time. 
My journals, the I/Justration Horticole and the Fournal des Orchidées are to be incorporated 
in a large illustrated journal of general horticulture which will appear every Saturday, 
the first issue being on January go next, under the title of LA SEMAINE HORTICOLE. 
The Lindenia will continue to appear separately as in the past without undergoing 
any change. 
The orchidic subscribers to LA SEMAINE HORTICOLE will lose nothing by the 
change. A special column headed Fournal des Orchidées will contain as much information 
regarding their favourite plants as their bright little journal has hitherto contained. 
It will be in fact the continuation of it. The remaining points in the programme are 
as follows : 
LA SEMAINE HORTICOLE will be published on the model of the large weekly 
English journals, such as the Gardeners’ Chronicle, The Garden, the Gardeners’ Maga- 
zine, etc., and each issue will consist of sixteen large pages printed in three columns, 
and having numerous illustrations. 
The new journal will embrace all branches of Horticulture, Floriculture, Arbori- 
culture, and Vegetable Culture, and will devote special attention to the decoration of 
apartments, to the installation of greenhouses and gardens, and to the industrial utilisation 
or management of plants, flowers, and fruits. It will publish periodically descriptions of 
beautiful collections, and views of the most noteworthy parks in all countries. It will 
be the “ Moniteur ” of great horticultural exhibitions. 
LA SEMAINE HORTICOLE will be the impartial mouthpiece and also the bond 
of union among amateurs, horticulturists, and gardeners — a journal teeming with infor- 
mation, and forming a practical guide to cultivation. It will at the same time be a 
mundane journal and will have a special column devoted to the pleasures of the garden 
and the park. 
The staff of LA SEMAINE HORTICOLE consists of the most competent writers 
on all these subjects, and they will endeavour to make it a journal at once complete, 
useful, and up to date in its information. 
Therefore I will not say “ Good-bye ” to my dear readers of the Fournal des Orchidées, 
but merely “ Au revoir. ” Lucien LINDEN. 
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