TaEJJCKJRKAL OP HOBTIOULTORB AND COTTAGE QARDBNKB, June SO, 1892. ] 
TO OUE EEADEE8 
Once again we have the pleasure of rendering our acknowledgments to all who have aided us in the completion 
of another Volume of the Journal of Horticulture. 
In its production and j^resentation the best efforts of men of long experience, as well as of probationers 
of high promise, have been combined with happy results'—the full maintenance of the high standard of 
popularity that our weekly issues enjoy in the Horticultural world. 
Very pleasant it is for us to feel strong—as we do—in the strength of our helpers. Men who have 
spent years of active service in Gardening, amateurs with special knowledge and facile pens, accomplished 
men of science, with talented artists, are among our valued associates; and seekers for information stimulate 
by their inquiries the best endeavours to produce it, and rarely, we think, without a measure of success. 
On that strength we rest firmly; and notwithstanding small changes, as incidents of life, we are convinced 
that the staff of the Journal of Horticulture was never stronger than it is to-day. 
All who have shared in the completion of the Volume, which embraces the first half of the present 
year, may be assured that their work is approved by the wide constituency of readers who look to this their 
favourite Journal for guidance on subjects which are appropriate to its pages. 
The Editors also very warmly appreciate both the personal aid and the public approval of which 
they are the recipients, accepting them as a reward for 2 >Rst endeavours to be useful, and as an incentive to 
S greater zeal in the cause of Gardening. 
