^JGREFABFY to periodical custom, we have again the pleasure, on 
the completion of another volume, of thanking our friends and 
correspondents for the continued confidence they have manifested 
in “ The Gardeners’ Magazine of Botany,” and for the 
liberal support which they have accorded to it. For this we 
return them our warmest and most grateful thanks ; and, at the same 
time, venture to hope that the evidence we have manifested of a desire 
to be useful in promoting the cause of Botanical and Horticultural Science, will 
secure for us, in the great year of 1851, a still larger amount of support. 
In the present volume a part of the Coloured Illustrations have been devoted to 
New r Fruits, a feature which, we doubt not, will he favourably regarded by our sub¬ 
scribers, and which will he continued in succeeding volumes whenever subjects of 
sufficient interest present themselves ; and thus we hope to win for the Magazine a 
Pomological as well as a Botanical reputation, and render it—what a gardener’s 
magazine ought to be—a complete record of every new fact which may present itself 
in the circle of the sciences with which it is connected. 
From our friends in all parts, abroad as well as at home, we solicit the passing 
tribute of a kindly word, and, in all confidence and humility, would again remind 
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