HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 23 



flowers, and feel convinced that with care and perseverance we can 

 in a few years rival their standard ; only plant a portion of stock in 

 a damp and somewhat shady yet open situation, and the Pansy is as 

 much at home and as easily grown as it is in Britain. 



Wm. Chorlton, New Brighton, S. I. 



In making a bow to the public at our entrance upon the new vol- 

 ume, it is with confidence of being about to use our utmost exertions 

 to deserve the approval of all under whose notice we may come. Our 

 advantages are great. We are here in the midst of horticulturists 

 of everv shade, harms; as references the fine collections of our ama- 

 teurs and nurserymen ; the proceedings and library (the best in the 

 country) of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, and the assist- 

 ance of many friends, both scientific and practical. We bring to our 

 work enthusiastic admiration for everything pertaining to horticul- 

 ture, an excellent knowledge of the best plants in cultivation, a fair 

 amount of botanical and other knowledge requisite for carrying on 

 a horticultural journal, and a determination to make our magazine 

 one of the first, if not the very first, in the country. 



The too much neglected science of botany, especially that relat- 

 ing to our own Flora, we will do our utmost to diffuse a love for ;— 

 we intend, as far as we can, to note the flowering of the plants in- 

 digenous to this neighborhood as they appear. In this we are pro- 

 mised the assistance of a scientific gentleman — one of the best plan* 

 tagnostes of this city. 



Our first plate is entirely a Philadelphia production — obtained 

 from seed here, named in honor of the wife of our greatest amateur' 

 horticulturist, painted by Mrs. Smith, and lithographed and colored 

 by Duval — we challenge the United States to produce its superior! 

 We would have commenced the volume with one of the plates or-^ 

 dered from Europe, but they did not arrive in time. We shall pre* 

 sent to our readers, as far as we are able, an interesting variety of 

 subjects ; and we hope to figure among other plants all the best 

 American varieties of the different florist's flowers. 



The new introductions to this and other cities will be noted and 

 described ; and as we think that more plants are imported here than 



