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TO FRIENDS AND PATRONS. 
Gentle readers, we have now reached the end of our voyage of 
the seasons, the end of the year, the end of this volume, and with 
it our editorial labors cease. Our voyage has not been a prosper- 
ous, though a pleasant one. Instead of making the port of Pros- 
perity, which we started for, we were obliged to put in to the 
harbor of Disappointment. Our wares did not meet with a ready 
sale, and are left on our hands to perish " unsight, unseen," — in 
plain English, the support afforded is not sufficient to sustain vs. 
We have therefore come to the conclusion, (although earnestly 
pressed by many of our friends to continue the publication,) to 
discontinue it after this date. 
And here we would remark, that it would be uncandid and un- 
grateful in us not to acknowledege that for its chief interest and 
usefulness, the credit is mainly, if not wholly, due to the corres- 
pondents of the Journal. While, therefore, we tender our cordial 
thanks to the correspondents and patrons, we beg their forbear- 
ance in reference to its imperfections, of which we are duly sensi- 
ble. If we have succeeded in our efforts the past year, in aiding 
the advancement of agriculture and horticulture, we shall feel 
that our labors have not been lost. And now we seize this op- 
portunity of tendering our readers our heartfelt wishes for their 
prosperity and happiness, and hope that good health may lend its 
wonted zest to their exertions, and that they may pursue their 
noble avocations with elastic step, a generous flow of spirits, and 
a heart impressed with a high sense of gratitude to an allwise and 
Beneficient Being. 
To the gentlemen of the press who have so kindly noticed our 
Journal, from time to time, we tender our unfeigned thanks. 
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