It is a great pleasure to feel, in closing our 27th and entering on our 28th volume, that in all these many years we are receiving the continued support of intelligent Horticulturists everywhere. Our main object is to keep Horticulture in the advance. We do not propose to ourselves to take a banker or storekeeper, who has hardly knowledge of a blade of grass, and tell him how he can make a fortune in a few months. This task we leave to our able brethren of the Agricultural press. Our mission is to enable humanity to gather the greatest amount of pleasure possible from rural pursuits. We have thus a very broad field to work in. We embrace the one who has to toil and sweat in order to get a miserable piece of bread and butter, and whose labors by increased intelligence we would lighten; as well as the millionaire who wishes to make his garden all that is to be understood by the brightest and best. We are glad for our own enjoyment to know that the editorial work of twenty-seven years is appreciated; but we are the more glad on the publisher's account that so many in sending their own, or an additional subscription from a friend, tell him how much they appreciate the work.

The following from a subscriber, "H. F.," Austin, Texas, is a sample of many :

" Every number has come to hand punctually and its appearance is always hailed with pleasure. In theory as well as in practice it is every thing we could desire and is always read by me with great interest".

Another - "C. F. P..," of Galveston, Texas-says : " I have only subscribed since August last. It would have been worth several thousand dollars had I subscribed five years ago".