July 8, 1833. ] 
TO OUR HEADERS. 
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When time passes quickly it is said to pass pleasantly. To ourselves the half yearly volumes of the Journal 
appear to be completed in a very short period of time, and we doubt not it is the same with our experienced helpers. 
It is pleasant to share in work that is appreciated, and we have the satisfaction of knowing that our efforts to 
gather and distribute information on subjects of culture meet with warm and wide acceptance. 
Our volume closes as the great Eose season opens, and when these words reach our readers the Floral Queen of 
summer will have received the homage of thousands of loyal subjects. We join in that great throng, and shad not 
cease to hope for still finer Eoses and firmer friendships. 
Taking the Eose, for the moment, as the representative of floriculture, we cannot fail to ob3erve how real 
is the interest that is invested in this branch of the greater subject of which the Journal of Horticulture is an 
exponent. 
In the broadest sense it will continue to reflect the character of the horticultural industry, as it will, as 
heretofore, record the practice of expert craftsmen as the best means of pointing the way for the less experienced 
who are striving to win success. 
The policy of the Journal remains the same. Unmoved by political or polemical strife it will be steadily, 
and, we trust, harmoniously pursued. Its mission is to do good, and the “ vote and interest ” of a world-wide 
constituency is sought on that ground, and that alone. 
As there have been no abstentions from cur poll we return thanks to all who have assisted in the completion 
of the volume to which the annexed index refers, in the full assurance that a still larger measure of support will 
be accorded in the future. 
