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OF

HORTICULTURE,

BOTANY,

AND ALL USEFUL DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS IN

RURAL AFFAIRS,

"Je voudrais échauffer tout l'univers de mon gout pour les jardins. Il me semble
qu'il est impossible qu'un méchant puisse l'avoir. Il n'est point de vertus que je ne
suppose à celui que aime à parler et à faire des jardins. Péres de famille, inspirez
la jardinomanie à vos enfans."-Prince De Ligne.

VOL. XI.

1845.

(VOL. I., NEW SERIES.)

EDITED BY C. M. HOVEY.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY HOVEY AND CO., MERCHANTS ROW.

1845.

THE Eleventh Volume of the Magazine commences the First of a New Series, or Decade, in order to accommodate new subscribers, who do not wish to possess the entire work.

A reference to the table of contents will show at a glance the variety of information contained in this volume. The principal papers are those containing the notes and details of our tour in Europe, which we trust have been found as interesting and instructive as any thing we could present to our readers; these will be completed in the Twelfth Volume. Besides the places yet remaining to be noticed around London, are some of the most extensive private residences, public gardens and nurseries, which we visited in Scotland. The articles on the construction of forcing pits and green-houses, will be found of much value, and with what we shall ourselves have to offer in the next volume, will supply the amateur with all the more recent and approved modes of building and heating garden structures of all kinds. The introduction of the improved forms of boilers, and their more economical consumption of fuel, will greatly lessen the expense of heating,-an item of much importance, in our severe climate. A continuation of our article on new fruits enumerates twelve varieties of pears, of which engravings have been given. The Reviews of New Books, and the Miscellaneous Intelligence in the Eleventh Volume, will be found highly interesting.

The details of our European tour, have prevented us from fulfilling some of the promises we made in our last volume; but we now are glad to state that we have the engravings under preparation, and shall present in an early number of the next volume, our first article on our hardy trees and shrubs. The favorable season for pears has also enabled us to make many acquisitions to our collection of drawings, and we shall figure and describe some new and choice varieties in the Twelfth Volume.

Relying upon the aid of our amateur friends, we hope to add increased interest to our pages, and render the Magazine a record of every improvement in Horticultural Science.

Boston, Dec. 1, 1845.

C. M. H.

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