Excerpt from The British Florist, Vol. 2 of 6
On completing and presenting to its numerous readers and the public generally, the Second Volume of The Florist's Journal, we find ourselves entitled to congratulate both them and us. We laid down an original and definite plan for ourselves on the first commencement of our labours; - this plan was not to give a mere list of flowers from the catalogue, and a tame and empirical account of every one's mode of culture, unsupported by general reasonings, and those appeals to the grand workings of nature, for which the works of our predecessors might be examined in vain, as they contented themselves with the old packhorse ways of the science. We, on the other hand, have endeavoured to advance equally the art of floriculture and the science of plants, and the result, though we dared scarcely hope for it at the beginning, has been most successful. The style of writing which our correspondents have adopted is an unprecedented one; for, instead of confining themselves to composts, manures, and empirical modes of treatment, they have, without neglecting these practical matters, brought philosophy to bear upon the subject, in a manner far superior to any thing known in the earlier botanical journals of Britain.
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