P R E F A C E. 
The opportunity of annually addressing our readers in the 
familiar and confidential manner of mutual intercourse, is 
one we are ever proud of; being fully impressed with its 
value as an occasion for explaining our present position, 
and of stating what in the prospective seems likely to 
affect our future arrangements. 
On the completion of this, the Sixth Volume, we have the 
gratification to observe that The Florist’s Journal is 
now in a higher position than at the close of any preceding 
one ; a steady increase of the circulation having continued 
throughout the entire year, and offers of assistance con¬ 
tinue to reach us from all sides: these are matters of 
gratulation which serve to quicken and increase our desire 
to be useful. After tendering our cordial thanks to both 
contributors and readers for this addition to former favours, 
we proceed to mention the arrangements we propose to 
adopt in the future management of the Journal. 
It has been shown to us by a great number of corres¬ 
pondents, that the main object in the establishing of the 
Journal, its general usefulness, would be very much ex- 
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