THE 



FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 



ADDRESS. 



Itf our last Number we bade farewell to our readers on completing our 

 Fourteenth Volume, and now we meet them in a somewhat new form, with 

 higher aspirations and greater obligations to fulfil. For fourteen years our 

 best efforts have been directed to the progress and development of Gardening, 

 and throughout that period have we assiduously collected and disseminated 

 through our pages the facts, opinions, and suggestions of all of the best prac- 

 tical writers of the day ; nor while elucidating the art of Cultivation have we 

 been insensible to the equally important improvement effected in the races of 

 Plants. Indeed, we may go further, and say that ever since the introduction of 

 our work to the Garden Literature of the times we can lay claim to bavin 

 occupied the very first position in this respect ; as a proof of which the suc^ 

 cessful results which have been obtained though the skill of modern hybridists, 

 have first been made known to the public either through the pencils of our 

 artists or the pens of our contributors ; and it is with pride that we are able 

 to refer to the names of Beck, Hoyle, Foster, Fellowes, Sainsbury, Turner, 

 Maclean, Puxley, Ingram, Keynes, Dodds, Rawlings, Strong, Henderson, Banks! 

 Storey. Standish, and others, whose respective productions have, from time to 

 time, been first figured or described in our pages. Sad are we to relate that 

 of the above great ones in the Floral world two have ceased from then- 

 labours amongst us, and now rest in peace ; but their names will long survive, 

 the brief span of existence being perpetuated in many a lovely flower, at once 

 reminding us of their skill, and affording us a grateful souvenir of happy hours 

 spent in their society. The rest are with us, and we anticipate to be furnished 

 with numerous new and fine productions, the result of their labours in this 

 branch of Experimental Gardening. 



With the already great advantages which belong to our position as the 

 organ of the Floricultural world, we have now decided in admitting to an equal 

 share of our favours the claims of Pomology as an associate with the sister art 

 of Floriculture. We need scarcely add that it is our wish and resolve to 

 maintain the Flokist and Pomologist at the head of its class, in this de- 

 partment of Garden Literature ; to effect this our object, the promises of 

 support we have received, as explained by our list of contributors given else- 

 where, will afford to our readers the most unqualified guarantee of the means 

 for success which are at our disposal. 



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