A MONTHLY JOURNAL or Horticultural Science, Landscape Gardening and Rural Art.

COMMENCEs ON THE FIRST OF JANUARY, 1862, THE THIRD VOLUME OF THE FOURTH SERIES.

EDITED BY C. M. HOVEY, AUTHOR OF "THH FRUITs OF AMERICA."

Complete Sets in Twenty-Seven Volumes, handsomely hound, $2 each.

The third Volume of the Fourth Series (Vol. XXVIII.) commences on the first of January. It has now been so long before the public, and is so popular throughout the country, that it would appear superfluous to urge its claims upon the attention of cultivators, amateurs, or gentlemen interested in Horticultural pursuits. It has been highly influential in diffusing a taste fur Gardening and Rural Art everywhere, and is an almost indispensable aid to the Pomologist, the lover -of Flowers, the Country Gentleman, and all who feel the least interested in the cultivation of trees and plants, in the adornment of their gardens and grounds, or in the spread of a taste for Rural improvement To enlarge its influence, corresponding with this advance of taste, and the increasing number of cultivators throughout the country, is the object and ambition of the editor.

It will embrace, among other kindred subjects, the following:

The Progress of Horticulture, The Science of Cultivation, Descriptions of all New Fruits, Descriptions of all New Flowers, Descriptions of all New Trees and Shrubs, Pomological Gossip, Landscape Gardening,

And to facilitate the labors of cultivators,

The Kitchen Garden,

Reviews of Horticultural Works,

Suburban Visits,

Foreign Notices,

Monthly Gossip,

Replies to Questions,

Reports of Horticultural Societies.

Monthly Calendar of Horticultural Operations will be given in detail, and adapted to the wants of amateur cultivators, reminding them of the routine of operations which are necessary to be performed in the Fruit Garden, Flower Garden, Ornamental Grounds, Greenhouses, Grapery, and Kitchen Garden, through the varying seasons of the year. In fine, giving all the information which the amateur or the country gentleman requires to manage successfully the smallest or largest garden.

In the twenty-seven volumes now completed, more than Eight Hundred Drawing* of the Newest and Finest Fruits have appeared, many of them in no other work, and upwards of Eighteen Hundred other Engravings, illustrating the great variety of subjects treated upon. 5o pains will be spared to render the Magazine what it has heretofore been - the most valuable Horticultural periodical extant.

TERMS, Two Dollars a year, in advance. Four copies to one address, Six Dollars.

HOVEY & CO., Dec.30. 23 Kilby Street, Boston.

A New Volume Of The Magazine Of Horticulture #1

A Monthly Journal Of Horticultural Science, Landscape Gardening And Rural Art.

COMMENCEs ON THE FIRST OF JANUARY, 1862,

THE THIRD VOLUME Of THE FOURTH SERIES.

EDITED BY C. M. HOVEY, AUTHOR OF "THE FRUITs OF AMERICA".

Complete Sets in Twenty-Seven Volumes, handsomely bound, $2 each.

The third Volume of the Fourth SERIEs (Vol. XXVIII.) commences on the first of January. It has now been so long before the public, and is so popular throughout the country, that it would appear superfluous to urge its claims upon the attention of cultivators, amateurs, or gentlemen interested in Horticultural pursuits. It has been highly influential in diffusing a taste for Gardening and Rural Art every where, and is an almost indispensable aid to the Pomologist, the lover of Flowers, the Country Gentleman, and all who feel the least interested in the cultivation of trees and plants, in the adornment of their gardens and grounds, or in the spread of a taste for Rural improvement. To enlarge its influence, corresponding with this advance of taste, and the increasing number of cultivators throughout the country, is the object and ambition of the editor.

It will embrace, among other kindred subjects, the following:

The Progress of Horticulture, The Science of Cultivation, Descriptions of all New Fruits, Descriptions of all New Flowers, Descriptions of all New Trees and Shrubs, Pomological Gossip, landscape Gardening,

And to facilitate the labors of cultivators,

The Kitchen Garden,

Reviews of Horticultural Works,

Suburban Visits,

Foreign Notices,

Monthly Gossip,

Replies to Questions,

Reports of Horticultural Societies.

Monthly Calendar of Horticultural Operations will be given in detail, and adapted to the wants of amateur cultivators, reminding them of the routine of operations which are necessary to be performed in the Fruit Garden, Flower Garden, Ornamental Grounds, Greenhouses, Grapery, and Kitchen Garden, through the varying seasons of the year. In fine, giving all the information which the amateur or the country gentleman requires to manage successfully the smallest or largest garden.

In the twenty-seven volumes now completed, more than Eight Hundred Drawings of the Newest and Finest Fruits have appeared, many of them in no other work, and upwards of Eighteen Hundred other Engravings, illustrating the great variety of subjects treated upon. No pains will be spared to render the Magazine what it has heretofore been - the most valuable Horticultural periodical extant, .

Terms, Two Dollars a year, in advance. Four copies to one address. Six Dollars.

HOVEY & CO., Dec. St. 23 Kilby Street, Boston.

"The best of all the American Newspapers devoted to matters of Rural Economy".

-Scottish Farmer and Horticulturist, Edinburgh, Aug. 7, X861.