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HOBTICETUBE JOURlll, 



A MAGAZINE OF 



Horticulture, Botany, Agriculture, and tlie Kindred Sciences. 



Edited and Published by R. ROBINSON SCOTT, No. 63 Walnut Street, between Second 

 and Dock Streets, up stairs. 



Vol. I.] 



Philadelphia. 



[No. 11. 



OUR NEW VOLUME. 



As early in January as we are able, will appear the second volume 

 of the %t Florist and Horticultural Journal." As we will have 

 many difficulties to contend with, the most formidable of which will 

 be the fact of our publishing a three dollar Magazine at two dollars, 

 we hope that all who wish to see Philadelphia in the right place in 

 the literary department of Horticulture, as she always has been in 

 every other. department, will come forward and help us. It ^is not 

 enough that our friends, numerous as they are, subscribe : they must 

 induce their friends and their friends' friends to subscribe ; we want to 

 obtain a footing, and then we trust we shall show that we deserve to 

 be sustained. The late Commodore Decatur, being complimented on 

 one occasion for his bravery and success, replied, fc ' that any of the of- 

 ficers in the American Navy could have done Ihe same thing, if they 

 had a chance ; and that all a brave man wanted to distinguish himself 

 was opportunity." Now we want an opportunity, and it can only be 

 had by our obtaining a good circulation among those who will appre- 

 ciate and encourage our endeavors. 



In order to make our Mngazine as attractive as possible, we have 

 been at a great deal of trouble and expense in procuring the best plates 

 which are anywhere attainable ; most of them will be executed for us 

 in Europe — those which we have done in this country will be gotten 

 up as artistically and a9 faithfully as possible. In one of our earliest 

 I numbers we will give a picture of a Philadelphia seedling Camellia, 

 o acknowledged to be one of the best ever raised in this city, so famous k 

 /2 for its fine varieties of that elegant flower. r\ 



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