By J. C. LOUDON, F.L.S. H.S. &c.

AUTHOR OF THE ENCYCLOPÆDIAS OF GARDENING, OF AGRICULTURE, AND OF COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE, AND EDITOR OF THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PLANTS.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMAN, PATERNOSTER-ROW.

Supplement to our Hortus Britannicus; and in this form we mean to continue these lists in future. Our Gardening Tour on the Continent is continued in this Volume, as is also our Tour' in the north of England and west of Scotland.

The Ninth Volume, that for 1833 (just completed), contains accounts of some of the finest Gardens of France, Bavaria, and Baden; some valuable papers on Arboriculture and Landscape-Gardening; part of our Tour in the west and south of England; Mr. Mallet's Tour on the Continent; the modes of Heating by Hot Water or other fluids, of Perkins, Weekes, Holmes, Ure, Kewley, and others; and several very interesting papers on Vegetable Physiology.

In the above rapid glance, we have only noticed one or two subjects in each Volume, as features by which to characterise it; but, viewing the series of volumes as a whole, they will be found to contain all the accessions that have been made to the Science and Practice of Gardening throughout the temperate regions of both hemispheres, and more especially in Britain, since the commencement of the Magazine, in January, 1826. The facts and reasonings contained in these volumes are the more valuable, from having stood the test of retrospective criticism from their various readers and contributors. The liability to this test renders statements communicated to the public through a scientific periodical, of much greater value than such as are published in a work which, from its plan, admits of no discussion. The Gardener's Magazine has been from its commencement, and will continue to be, open to the most rigid criticism of whatever appears in it, whether by Contributors or the Conductor; the only condition being, that such criticism shall be concise, and in language free from personal abuse.

With the Tenth Volume, that for 1834, will commence a reduction of the price of the Gardener's Magazine to 2s. 6d. a Number, or 15s. for the Annual Volume: a reduction which has been made in compliance with the suggestions of various Gardeners, and in conformity with the spirit of the times. In this New Series, as it may be considered, so bulky an annual volume will not be produced; but the size of the page will be increased, so as to enable us to insert a nearly equal quantity of matter; and, what will be of great advantage to young gardeners, to enlarge the size of the engravings, more especially when these contain plans of gardens, or of pleasuregrounds.

We are happy to state, that, notwithstanding the publication of no fewer than six Gardener's Magazines in England, besides one in Ireland, since this (the first Gardener's Magazine which ever appeared in the English language) was commenced, the contributors to our work, so far from falling off, either in their numbers or in the interest of their communications, have steadily increased in both. These circumstances afford a gratifying proof of the widely spreading taste for our art, and confirm us in the sentiments we have expressed in reviewing in this work the first numbers of the different periodicals alluded to.

In returning our Contributors and our Readers our sincere thanks, we can assure them that no exertion whatever on our part, or on that of the publishers, shall be wanting to insure the continuance of this Magazine in the same superior style in which it has hitherto been produced; and to render it, in all respects, what it originally professed to be, and has hitherto been, a perpetual supplement to our Encyclopædias of Gardening, of Agriculture, and of Plants, and to our Hortus Britannicus.

Bayswater, Nov. 20. 1833.

J. C. L

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