viii ADVERTISEMENT. 
In the letter-press department of this Volume, besides the attention 
that has been given to scientific matters, some of the commoner operations of 
the floriculturist have been fixed upon, discussed in their universal bearings, 
and proved to be singularly influential in facilitating the results of practice. 
As in questions of higher moment, it will be found that what appear to be 
little things exert a power over greater, and often involve consequences, 
which cannot be disregarded with impunity. And since it is these minor 
circumstances which are generally overlooked, there is assuredly a necessity 
for having them clearly investigated, and their agency fully explained. 
It has also been our aim to supply the cultivator, in most of the articles 
we publish, with a greater number of hints — not speculative, but practical — 
for extending the range of his pursuits, and embracing hitherto unat- 
tempted, or rarely attempted, objects in culture. Both this and the 
preceding practice we shall continue and amplify in our succeeding Volumes. 
And here, as it is by our friends' kind assistance, and our subscribers' 
ready patronage, that we have been enabled to accomplish whatever 
improvements we have already made in our Magazine, and hope to 
compass others as they may offer, we would again tender our best thanks 
to all by whom we have been thus encouraged. 
Chatsworth, 
December 20, 1843. 
