MEEHANS' MONTHLY. A Magazine of Horticulture, Botany CONDUCTED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, FORMERLY EDITOR OF THE "GARDENERS' MONTHLY," AND AUTHOR OF THE NATIVE flowers aND SCIENCES OF PhiladelPHIA, BOTANIST TO THE PENNSYLVANIA Preface to Volume IX. is finished. UST WHY a completed volume should be expected to be given a preface, has never been demonstrated. Everyone knows that it is not begun till the work It is like as if we should say "Good-bye" when we meet a friend, or, "How is your health?" when we part. It is, however, more appropriate in a work on flowers, than elsewhere,— for the introduction to a flower's beauty is by the expansion of its petals, when the vigorous growth ends. And so in this preface we commend our work to the good will and admiration of the reader,-hoping to have many more pleasures of a similar task in the years to come. |