Testimonials of the Press in favour of the Horticultural Magazine. 
" This is a new candidate for public favour. The 
papers are varied and interesting. The articles on the 
Rose, the Pelargonium, the Hyacinth, the culture of 
Myatt's Pine Strawberry, and the culture of the Melon, 
are of a superior order." — Shrewsbury Journal. 
" The manner in which the writer shows how the 
disadvantages of a piece of ground may, by skilful 
management, be turned into beauties and advantages, 
is clear and satisfactory. The notice of The Scripture 
Herbal, by the late amiable Lady Calcott, is well 
written, and does justice to a very remarkable and 
interesting book." — Glasgow Argus. 
" The contents are invaluable to every gardener, 
and no lover of horticultural and floral pursuits should 
be without it." — Cheltenham Journal. 
" To the professional as well as the amateur gar- 
dener or horticulturist, this Magazine will prove a 
valuable companion, from the extensive and general 
information afforded on the subjects of his study and 
care ; while from the happy manner in which the va- 
rious topics are treated of, it may be perused with 
pleasure by the general reader." — Dundee Courier. 
" Its articles, for the most part, are thoroughly 
practical, and, what is extremely rare in so clever a 
work, are distinguished for sound sense and simplicity. 
Science, stript of her abstruse terms and technicalities, 
is here clothed in the plain and familiar language 
which every one can understand and appreciate. It 
is, in short, a well-written, practical Magazine, and 
therefore most useful, if not essential, to all gardeners 
and florists who wish their knowledge to keep pace with 
that of the age they live in." — Ten Towns Messenger. 
" The plan of this work seems very judicious, and 
the execution good. The detailed notices of the gar- 
dening operations for each month, given much more 
fully than in the ordinary "Gardener's Instructors" 
Almanacs, and so on, will no doubt be very useful to 
amateurs. The woodcuts are numerous and excel- 
lent." — Great Western Advertiser. 
" There is in each number a great body of useful 
information, possessing the highest interest to horti- 
culturists and gardeners, as well as to all who take 
pleasure in the most delightful department of crea- 
tion." — Worcester Herald. 
" It contains original essays on the leading topics of 
interest connected with Horticulture, along with plain 
and practical directions for the cultivation of those 
flowers, shrubs, &c, which are most in vogue. The 
work is liberally and effectively illustrated. — Aber- 
deen Journal. 
" The Horticultural Magazine will recommend itself 
to that class for which it has been established." — 
Wakefield Journal. 
" The papers in the numbers before us treat of sub- 
jects in every branch of gardening in a popular and 
practical style, but manifestly directed by truly scien- 
tific principles." — Kent Herald. 
" A popular work on gardening, adapted to bring 
the most successful system of gardening within the 
reach of almost everybody. The simplicity of its 
style makes it invaluable to the general reader, while 
the wide range of its subjects gives him all the infor- 
mation he requires. We heartily recommend this 
Magazine to our readers, assuring them they will find 
in its pages all the information in practical gardening 
that they may want." — Ipswich Express. 
" This is a new periodical, devoted to a most 
important and interesting range of subjects ; there 
seems to be no pains or expense spared to render 
the information of which it is the medium as varied 
and extensive as possible. The writers in it are 
evidently practical and scientific men. The Mork is 
printed in a fine bold type, and the illustrations, which 
are numerous, are very clearly and beautifully 
executed. Altogether we can recommend this peri- 
odical, as promising to become, if it is not so already, 
the best of its class and design."— Iiochester Gazette. 
" A very usefully written and extremely well illus- 
trated Publication. The results of long practised 
scientific attention to its well-selected topics, are given 
with that felicity of detail, which holds the pride of 
authorship in due subordination to the instruction 
proposed to be imparted to the reader. The informa- 
tion is consequently no less perspicuous, than it is 
adequately copious, and must render the publication 
welcome to a large class of society."— Taunton 
Courier. 
" The talent which has been employed on two publi- 
cations will now be united in producing one with an 
intent to afford instruction in every department of 
Horticulture, given in plain and familiar language." — 
Coventry Herald. 
" This is a new candidate for public favour, and, as 
far as we can judge from the numbers now before us, 
its projectors may reasonably ground, upon its intrin- 
sic merits, a hope that it will become extensively po- 
pular. The contents of each number are varied and 
valuable, the articles are popularly and intelligibly 
written, and the information given is digested and 
arranged with great care." — Western Luminary. 
" The parts before us teem with interesting in- 
formation. Indeed, we have no hesitation in saying, 
with respect to one department of this Magazine (and 
it is one to which we have given some attention), that 
it excels any publication of the kind we have ever met 
with before. We refer to the information with regard 
to the cultivation of flowers, which is altogether so 
full, plain, and practical, that it affords at once what 
could be acquired otherwise only by years of inquiry 
and experience. To the professional florist, as well as 
to the amateur, therefore, the work will be of the 
greatest service, and we cordially recommend it to 
their attention. The illustrations, which are numerous, 
are faithfully and beautifully executed. The writing 
generally is elegant and perspicuous, and we trust the 
Magazine will have, as it deserves, a most extensive 
circulation." — Glasgow Courier. 
" This, the third number, bears out all we said of 
the two former ones. It bids fair to become a well- 
established and deserved favourite." — Leicester Jour- 
nal. 
" The writer, with great good sense, aims at being 
more familiar rather than more original than his pre- 
decessors. This Magazine is cheap, beautifully and 
profusely illustrated, and embodies a selection of ar- 
ticles, both practical, and scientific, which must greatly 
tend to the advancement of horticulture." — Western 
Agriculturist. 
" The object of the present Magazine is the practical 
application of science to horticultural improvement, 
and towards this all knowledge is requisite. The 
readers of this Magazine will be informed of every 
garden operation at the season required ; and, as it 
appears to us, in a clear and satisfactory manner, so 
that every man may be his own gardener, — not only 
in things common and useful, but in respect to the 
choicest and most difficult to raise of garden produce. 
The illustrations are abundant and beautifully exe- 
cuted." — Keene's Bath Journal. 
" A new periodical, addressing itself to all who 
love gardening. It purposes to be eminently practical. 
