ADVERTISEMENTS. 



Published Monthly, Price Sixpence, profusely Illustrated. 



THE YILLA GARDENER 



THIS Magazine is not intended for Professional Gardeners, who are already so 

 well supplied with ably conducted weekly and monthly journals, but for 

 that very large class — the dwellers in Suburban Residences and Villas — who are 

 interested in Gardening simply as a relaxation from other pursuits, who do not 

 employ a regular gardener, and who have at present no Periodical devoted 

 expressly to their interests. 



Its pages are occupied with matter concerning Villa and Town Gardens — to 

 their laying out, planting, and general culture — the management of plants in the 

 open air, the conservatory, greenhouse, dwelling-house, balcony, Wardian case, 

 ic. City gardens, squares, parks, and places of public resort, also receive some 

 degree of attention proportionate to the influence they exercise, or may be made 

 to exercise, on the public taste. 



Special articles by some of the most competent writers of the day regularly 

 appear on all Gardening operations — as the preparation of the soil, manuring, the 

 sowing of seed, striking plants from cuttings, grafting, layering, pruning, training, 

 watering, and the innumerable other operations which require to be performed in 

 the course of the year, even in the smallest Garden. The Conductors wiU also 

 have something to say on the best mode of dealing with the Pests of the Garden, 

 insects especially. 



Notices of New Flowers, Fruits, Ornamental Plants and Trees, and Culinary 

 Vegetables, so far as these may be interesting to amateurs, appear in each 

 Number, and their respective merits or demerits are fairly criticised. 



Particular attention is given to the construction of conservatories, greenhouses, 

 and hothouses, and of the varied modes of Heating and Ventilating. 



Garden Architecture and the proper use of Statuary and other garden ornaments 

 form an important feature of the Villa Gardener. Improvements in Garden 

 Tools, Implements, and other appliances are noticed and criticised. 



Practical and plain instructions of what has to be done during the month, in all 

 the departments of a VUla Garden, are given ; and, in addition, plain directions 

 for what should not be done. 



It being unquestionable that it is on the Ladies of the household that the 

 general direction of the labour of a Flower Garden falls, as well as the care of 

 plants in the conservatory and drawing-room, it has been the particular study of 

 the Conductors, by imparting their experience on the best modes of management, 

 to make "Every Lady her own Flower Gardener ;" and, in doing this, it is hoped 

 to effect a general improvement in the gardening tastes of that large class for 

 which the Villa Gardener is specially intended. 



In addition to the subjects mentioned above, a portion of the Magazine is 

 occasionally devoted to VUla Architecture, and the Management of Aviaries and 

 Aquariums, as adjuncts to the VUla. 



The Queries of Correspondents on all subjects connected vrith ViUa Gardening 

 receive every attention, and are replied to at such length as the general interest of 

 the questions demands. 



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 it, Copies will be sent Free by Post for one Year, on receipt of a Post-office Order, 

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