IV 
PREFACE. 
and searching philosophy to bear on their delightful art. 
The number of these, interested in our Journal and con¬ 
nected with it, continues to increase rapidly every day; 
and we speak as we have actually experienced, when we 
stated that our Journal, few as are its monthly pages, has 
called forth the foremost names in the field of floriculture, 
and enabled that field to view itself in a new manner, in 
which it will appear as much the handmaid of science as 
the superintendent of art: and the spirit of these men 
will be caught up and delighted in by other readers, until 
floriculture shall become as expanding to the mind, and 
warming to the finer feelings, as its practical results are 
delightful to the eye. In every flower there is, as it were, 
a divinity; and by means such as those which we have 
mentioned, and take some credit to ourselves for bringing 
forward, this divinity is induced to hold with mortals that 
delightful converse, which raises man from the earth, and 
points his faith and his hope to those regions, the flowers 
of which know' no winter. 
