PREFACE. 
Again we have the pleasure of addressing our readers 
on the completion of another volume of the Florist’s 
Journal, and if ever we had occasion for the expression of 
gratified sentiments it is now. 
The principle on which the commencement of our task 
was founded has been the basis for this the fourth volume, 
and we have cheering assurance it is right. It is true we 
have not given place to every hollow hallucination that has 
been current, or condemned, or commended, aught but on 
the authority of our own experience or conviction. But 
actuated alone by an earnest desire to assist in advancing 
the scientific portion, and to explain or make known the 
best of the practical part, to reconcile theory with practice, 
and show how far the one may be made conducive to the 
well-doing of both, we have proceeded; with this, which 
has been and will continue our chief aim, uninterruptedly 
in view. 
That we have not fallen far short of our intentions we 
have at least presumptive proof from the very flattering 
