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HE cUscoiitinuanoe of Paxton's Magazine of Botany has made a 
vacancy in Floricultm-al Literature, Avliicli it has been determined to fill 
up by the publication of a somewhat similar v/ork — The Gakdener's 
Magazine of Botany, whose origin is thus sufficiently explained Its 
objects we shall now briefly enumerate. 
The Gardeners' Magazine of Botany is intended to be a guide to the 
Practical Gardener in the various operations of his art. It also professes to teach 
Lady or Gentlemen Amateiu'S in the art of designing, laying out, selecting, and 
planting gardens and pleasure-grounds — in the erection and heating of horticul- 
tural buildings — and in the general management of gardens and plantations. Every 
fact connected with the progress of science, illustrative or elucidatory of j)ractical gardening, 
"will be duly registered as an aid to the cultivator. New popular flowers, fruits, and vegetables 
will be recorded, described, and, where necessary, illustrated ; and new varieties of pojmlar 
flowers will be critically noticed by competent judges. The Gardeners' Magazine of Botany 
is thus designed to become a Miscellany of usefid and interesting information on every branch 
of horticidtui-al science. "Science Avith Practice," is to be its motto. 
The objects thus briefly sketched are comprehensive iu their character ; and in the attain- 
ment of them the Conductors rely not so much upon themselves, as on the prompt assistance 
and promises of support they have received fi-om many of the first cultivators of the day ; 
and fi.-om other eminent wa'iters in those departments of science — Phytology, Chemistry, 
Entomology, &;e. — which bear on Horticidture in its various branches. To this support must 
be attributed whatever merit may be attained. 
Among the many advantages conferred upon the sciences of Horticultui-e and Botany by 
the late Mr. Loudon, it was not the least of his merits that he opened the pages of his Maga- 
zine as a medium through which Obseevi;ks might record the resiilts of their investigations 
in Natiu'al History, Gardening, and Botany. Since the discontinuance of his Magazine, no 
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