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ADVERTISEMENT. 
With much pleasure and satisfaction we again appear before our 
readers, at the close of this, our Fifteenth Year. 
We place the present volume in the hands of our subscribers, believing 
it will be found as interesting and useful as any of its predecessors. 
The advance of the age in which we live, and the increasing taste for 
Botanical and Horticultural pursuits, which is, day by day, diffusing itself 
throughout all classes of society, demand the utmost attention on our 
part, and determine us to increased exertion ; meanwhile, in dismissing 
this our Fifteenth Volume from the press, we cannot deny ourselves the 
pleasure of expressing our grateful sense of the encouragement we have 
invariably received in this and other countries ; an encouragement which 
will enable us again to commence our labours with renewed freshness 
and vigour. 
Chatsworth, 
December 23rd, 1848. 
