As we approach the close of the year, it may not be out of place to give our readers some intimation of our plans for the future. The recent addition to the editorial and business departments of the magazine will enable us to increase its value in every respect as a standard journal of Horticulture and Rural Art In consequence of the great attention now being given to the culture of the grape, and the often expressed want of reliable and impartial knowledge in regard to cultivation, varieties, etc, we shall devote an extended space to this subject, believing that in so doing we shall meet the wishes of a large class of our readers. The grape, undoubtedly, is destined to become our leading pomological interest, and a matter of considerable national importance; we purpose, therefore, making it one of our specialties. In addition to our own editorial articles on this subject, we shall give others from writers of well-known ability, including a series on the manufacture of wine. Fruits generally will receive a full share of attention, not only as objects of luxury and gratification, but especially in reference to their value for market. In this connection, due space will be given to the cultivation of fruit under glass.

Plants and flowers will continue to receive their full share of attention, constituting, as they do, an additional charm to every home, from the highest to the humblest. The inmates of the vegetable garden, likewise, will claim a share of our attention, and we shall give more space than heretofore to the wants of those occupying small plots of ground.

Landscape Gardening, Ornamental Trees, Engineering, etc, will be liberally treated, and embrace all matters of taste and construction necessary to their full-development and understanding. The subject of Rural Architecture is one of growing importance, which we shall endeavor to treat fully. Horticultural Buildings will receive special attention. The construction of glass houses for growing fruits and flowers is by no means fully understood; as a matter of economy and utility, combined with architectural beauty, there are many improvements that rarely get beyond the professional horticulturist. In addition to all this, we shall furnish full information on every subject relating to the progress of Horticulture, Gardening, Entomology, Botany, Hydraulics, Drainage, etc. Each volume 'will be liberally illustrated, and form a record of Horticulture not elsewhere to be met with.

Every effort will be made to improve the Horticulturist from month to month, and in respect to literary ability and typographical art it will be kept fully up to the highest standard, and as such we offer it to the horticultural public, believing that, with increased energy, a more extensive list of contributors, and better facilities, it will meet their requirements. The times require that we should neglect no means to increase our circulation, and with it our usefulness. We hope, therefore, that each one of our present subscribers will interest himself so far as to procure us at least one new name, and in that way help us to carry out our plans. Let us all work together in such a good cause.

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We wish to remind our readers that our new volume, the seventeenth, will commence with the new year, and that it is our intention to make it the best ever issued. All that appertains to the orchard and garden, rural improvements, and kindred subjects, will be found fully and practically treated in the pages of the Horticulturist. The January number will be issued early in December. We shall print a large extra edition for distribution, and wish that each of our subscribers would interest himself in making up a club, our terms for which are so favorable as to make this the cheapest publication of its kind known. For six dollars we will send four copies; and to any one who will procure six new subscribers, and send us nine dollars, we will send a seventh copy gratis. The same discount to clubs will be made on the edition with colored plates, which we commend to all. Our full club rates may be seen on the cover.

The bound volumes for 1860 and 1861, which we offer at premium rates to new subscribers, are among the most valuable of the whole set, and make a good beginning for preservation in libraries, to which they will make an elegant and valuable addition.