Commencement of a New Volume. 



FIRST-CLASS ILLUSTRATED GARDENING PUBLICATION. 



Published Weekly, price Threepence, Stamped Fourpence. 

 THE 



JOURNAL OP HORTICULTURE, 



COTTAGE GARDENER, 



AND 



COUNTRY GENTLEMAN. 



EDITED BY 



GEORGE W. JOHNSON, F.R.H.S., 



AND 



ROBERT HOGG, LL.D., F.L.S. 



Assisted by a Staff of the best Writers on Practical Gardening, and numerous 

 Amateur and Professional Correspondents, emir.ent in the various depart- 

 ments of Horticulture and other rural pursuits connected with the household. 



This long-established and widely circulating Journal consists of thirty-two pages of 

 letterpress, with occasional supplements of eight additional pages ; and is richly Illustrated 

 with Wood Engravings in the highest style of the art. 



The subjects treated on embrace every department of gardening, and rural and domestic 

 economy. 



The Horticultural department treats of all outdoor and indoor operations of the fruit-, 

 flower-, and kitchen-garden ; embracing the management of the stove, greenhouse, con- 

 servatory, vinery, pine-stove, and orchard-house ; and the cultivation of melons, cucum- 

 bers, and mushrooms ; forcing both of fruit, flowers, and vegetables ; notices of all the new 

 fruits, flowers, and vegetables ; arboriculture, and more particularly fruit-tree culture and 

 pomology ; landscape gardening and garden architecture ; descriptions of all the newest 

 inventions in garden structures, tools, and implements ; and a detail of work to be done in 

 each department during every week in the year. 



In Rural and Domestic Economy, it treats of the farm and poultry -yard ; allotment 

 farming ; the dairy ; the pigeon-house, and rabbit- and bee-keeping ; the treatment of soils, 

 manures, cropping, and rotation of crops. Brewing ; wine-making ; vegetable-cookery ; 

 and the preserving of fruits and vegetables. 



Natural History and Botany, so far as they relate to gardening and husbandry, are 

 amply treated on, and embrace Zoology, Geology, Mineralogy, Meteorology, and Physio- 

 logical, Structural, Systematic, and Popular Botany. 



Biographies and Portraits of the most celebrated horticulturists. 



Reviews of new books relating to the above subjects ; reports of horticultural and poultry 

 societies' meetings throughout the country ; and scientific notices. 



To Advertisers, the Journal of Horticulture will be found a valuable and effective 

 medium, from its extensive circulation among the middle and higher classes. 



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