IV 
PREFACE. 
tended by an increase of its size, and having experienced 
a great deal of inconvenience from its present space being 
so inadequate to the flow of subjects kindly forwarded, to 
say nothing of the disappointment arising from the non- 
appearance of excellent papers ; this, together with the 
numerous promises received from those who can contribute 
the best of matter, and the vacuity which has existed in 
garden literature since the cessation of the cc Gardener’s 
Magazine,” has induced us to accede to the repeated 
lequests of our friends, and with the succeeding volume 
will commence a New Series of the Florist’s 
Journal. Each number will then contain two plates 
instead of one as at present, accompanied by double the 
usual quantity of letter-press on every subject connected 
with a garden; information will thus be conveyed on 
various matters that we have hitherto been obliged to sup¬ 
press, and the gardener, the florist, the amateur and gene¬ 
ral lover of flowers, will be presented with a means of 
acquiring knowledge in each respective division. All 
matters pertaining to Horticulture will be treated of in 
succession, and nothing neglected. 
A variation of the plates will also be effected by the 
occasional introduction of coloured figures of new or es¬ 
teemed varieties of fruit, and illustrative woodcuts will be 
interspersed with such subjects as may require it, and the 
price of each number will be one shilling. 
Thus we hope to supply the gardening world with a 
work of sterling value, suited to the wants and means of 
all; and to enable us successfully to carry forward this 
project, we earnestly beg the continued co-operation off 
