This is the last number of the present volume, and it becomes necessary for our readers to renew their subscriptions; and we trust they will all do so, and send us some new names with their own. We have endeavored, in an humble way, to make the Horticulturist a useful and practical publication, and we have been cheered by many kind and friendly words of encouragement. We shall endeavor to add greatly to its usefulness during the next year; an increased subscription list would enable our publishers to place increased facilities at our command, and we should make the best use of these for the benefit of our readers, who, in reality, would reap the chief benefits of such increase. We desire that the Horticulturist should work its way and sustain itself on its own merits; but much as we wish to extend our circulation, we do not ask any body to stop another to take ours; for we believe that the poorest gardener would consult a wise economy by subscribing for and faithfully reading two or three of the best. We believe, further, that gentlemen employing gardeners would promote their own pecuniary interests and the welfare of their gardeners by presenting them with an annual subscription to two or three good magazines.

While we have reason to be satisfied with the year that is past, we look forward to a "better tune coming".