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PREFACE. 
HE GARDENERS' MAGAZINE OF BOTANY has now been 
^ffct in existence for two years, its primary object having been to 
furnish the amateur and professional gardener with trustworthy 
information on all subjects connected with the science of his art. 
The Illustrations have chiefly consisted of Coloured representations of 
Ss>4 rS", f new plants worthy of cultivation, or of new varieties raised by the per- 
K Jbz. severance an( l skill of our cultivators. Another and higher object was 
*/ 4 ^ however aimed at : it was the hope, both of the Proprietors and Con- 
«( ■ "" ductors, that the attention of a large circle of readers might be awakened 
to the physiological principles on which the gardening art is founded, when 
these came to be expounded by one of themselves. It was also their desire that the 
Illustrations, whether Coloured Representations of Plants, or Engravings on Wood, 
should be of a character to cultivate the taste, and please the eye, as works of art, 
while they served to convey correct ideas of the habit and appearance of the plants 
themselves. These objects they claim to have done their part towards accomplishing, 
and they believe they may refer to the three volumes of the Magazine as combining 
an amount of information on Scientific Gardening, with high class illustrations, un- 
equalled in number and character in any other Gardening Publication. 
But while the performance of the promises with which this Magazine was ushered 
into existence, may be referred to with satisfaction, the Proprietors and Conductors 
are not unconscious that in more respects than one, the ground they have taken has 
been too high: the fact was to some extent overlooked, thai the professional gardener, 
S) to whom they more particularly addressed themselves, did nol always possess the 
J-fo means of spending his monthly half-crown on one periodical, however high hi^ 
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