PUBLISHED ON THE FIRST OF EVERY MONTH, 
Price One Shilling, 
THE 
HORTICULTURAL MAGAZINE 
AND THE 
GAEDENER AND PRACTICAL FLORIST. 
This New Monthly Periodical has been established for the purpose of concentrating, in 
One Annual Volume, every subject of practical utility connected with Horticulture, 
Gardening, and Natural History ; and will consist of Original Papers, by every writer of 
eminence in those departments of science. It will contain also an impartial description of 
every New Flower, Fruit, and Vegetable introduced into this country ; the results of all useful 
experiments ; the effects of new Fertilizers ; the accounts of new practice ; and will reduce to a 
perfect system the Cultivation of Flowers,, and the Practical Management of Gardens, Green- 
house Stoves, Frames, &c. 
The following important features will be maintained by Writers exclusively engaged 
for this Magazine: — 
Porur.AR Treatises on the Cultivation and Manage- 
ment of Flowers, Fruits, and Vegetables, containing 
practical directions for every Operation, and Illustra- 
tions of all the varieties which characterize the different 
species of each subject. 
Descriptive Flower Lists. — Being a careful and 
impartial description of all the principal named Flowers, 
including the new ones to be let out during the current 
year. 
Select Flowers and Plants for Collections, to 
Show from, and for the Open Border. These will 
comprise carefully selected varieties of the principal 
Flowers, Plants, and Shrubs, fbr each purpose, . with 
such notices as each subject requires. 
New Flowers,. Plants, and Fruits, as they are 
introduced, will be regularly noticed and described, and 
every information that can be obtained relative to their 
habits and culture, will accompany each notice, and, 
when of sufficient importance, the subject will be 
figured. 
Reviews. — Every important Publication connected 
with Natural History, Botany, Geology, Practical Gar- 
dening, Farming, Chemistry, &c, will be carefully and 
elaborately reviewed. 
Florists' Flowers. — A Series of Original Papers 
on the Progress of Floriculture, and the Cultivation 
and Management of Florists' Flowers, will regularly 
appear. 
The only mode of securing- the punctual delivery of the If OETICtlLTURAL 
mA.CS-AZ.XNE is to give an order for it to some bookseller in the immediate 
neighbourhood, who may regularly obtain it in their London parcels. 
TESTIMONIALS OF THE PEESS IN FAVOUR OF THIS WORK. 
" A specimen of a new periodical, which promises to 
be mere practical than any of its contemporaries, de- 
dicated to the science of gardening. It is truly observed 
that the principal deficiency of such works is the 
treatment of every subject as if the reader was already 
initiated in the art. The design of The Horticultural 
Magazine is to write as if the reader knew nothing 
about the subject ; and it is the only safe mode of 
composing a treatise for popular instruction. Indeed, 
in almost all books authors err in presuming that their 
readers are better informed than in truth they are, and 
then starting far before them, instead of beginning with 
the beginning. The contents of this specimen pro- 
mises a useful addition to the library of the amateur 
gardener." — The Critic. 
" One of the few works open to practical men — 
without having any predilection in its favour, there 
is too much good sense, and sound practice, to warrant 
us in placing it second to any periodical of the present 
day — and we recognise in it the pens of several excel- 
lent practical men. The artistical department is well 
filled, and there is no question that, with all its faults, 
it is far before any other miscellaneous magazine on 
gardening." — Gardeners' Gazette. 
" The most valuable periodical of the class to which 
it belongs, that has hitherto appeared. 
" Without undervaluing any of the numerous other 
periodicals devoted to this subject, we do not hesitate 
to- say, that the Horticultural Magazine appears to us 
to surpass them all in the comprehensiveness of its 
plan, the practical character cf the papers which it 
contains, and last, though not^ least, its extreme cheap- 
ness. It is, in fact, not a little singular, that prior to 
the appearance of the first number of this Magazine 
in January last, there was no publication embracing 
every department of the management of the garden, 
and the amateur was obliged to procure a number of 
different periodicals, each embracing some particular 
department of garden culture, before he could obtain 
the necessary information for his guidance." — The 
Irish Farmers' Journal. 
" Calculated to be useful. . . . The information is 
given in a popular form, divested of scientific techni- 
calities." — United Gardeners' Journal. 
