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home. A fortunate range of climate — lands fertile and easily 

 acquired, tempt persons even of little means and feisure into the 

 delights of gardening. Where peaches and melons, the richest 

 fruits of the tropics, are raised without walls — where apples and 

 pears, the pride of the temperate zones, are often grown with little 

 more than the trouble of planting them — who would not be tempted 

 to join in the enthusiasm of the exclamation, 



"Allons mes amis, il faut oultiver nos jardins.'" 



Behold us then, with aU this growing zeal of our countrymen 

 for our beautiful and favorite art, unable to resist the temptation of 

 commencing new labors in its behalf. Whatever our own feeble 

 efforts can achieve, whatever our more intelligent correspondents 

 can accomplish, shall be done to render worthy this monthly record 

 ■oi the progress of horticulture and its kindred pursuits. If it is a 

 laudable ambition to " make two blades of grass grow where only 

 one grew before," we shall hope for the encouragement, and assistance, 

 and sympathy of all those who would see our vast territory made 

 smiling with gardens, and rich in all that makes one's country 

 worth living and dying for. 



