The Sun.
London, England, 1837-05-18 00:00:00

COUNTY FIRE OFFICE,
♦ND
PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE,
REGENT-STREET, LONDON.
Established 1806.
PRESIDENT—EARL GREY.
TRUSTEES AND DIRECTORS.
The Duke of Rutland Dr. Henderson
Marquis of Northaii pton Sir John Osborn, Bart.
Lord Northwick George Pryir e, t'sq.
Barber Beaumont, Esq. Hon Thomas Parker
John G. Booth, Esq. Sir Frederick Roe, Bart.
Edward Conant, Faq. Sir William Welby, Bart.
Francis Coust, Esq Glynne Earle Welby, Esq. M.P.
J. A. BEAUMOST, Secretary.
In these Offices the Profits are divided Septennially amonitlio)e
now insuring, equally with the original Members, according to
their respective contributions. In the Fire Office the Returns to
the Insured have been invariable, and have amounted to 12, 20,
and 25 per cent. In the Life Office the Bonuses have successively
increased to 40 per cent. As the effect of these divisions of profit
may be better understood by a few examples, the following are ex-
tracted from the List of Claims paid during the last year:—
No. of Number of t Sums
Policy. Payments. j Insured.

X. X. s. d.
1500 640 8 9
500 113 3 4
3000 6 4 17 11
500 166 9 3
3000 738 19 4
500 136 2 9
(;00 174 7 g
330 105 5 6

Additions of
Profit.

Amounts
Paid.

.1622 15
2866 17
no 2 20
351'15 16
1637 23
3937 14
2930 17
3175 16

X. a. d. -

2140 8 9
693 3 4
3844 17 11
666 IP 3
3738 19 4
83G a 9
774 7 9
435 6 6

THE GAR:
WEEKLY .
TURE, AND POL

)ENER'S GAZETTE AND
[OURNAL OF SCIENCE. LITERA-
TICS.

No. 1., Published JANUARY 7th and eth,
Price FIVEPENCE.

It is not a little extraordinary that the Horticulturists of this king-
dom have had as yet no Journal to advocate their interests, or sup-
port their claims, for no class was ever better calculated to support
a Journal, or occasionally more required its advoeacy. We speak of
Gardeners as scientific men—men who not only take an interest in
the cultivation of the earth, but in genoral are reading men, calcu-
lating men, and, from the very nature of their profession, thinking
men ; nor does it alter our position if we take all the grades of Gar-
deners. The Duke of Devonshire is a Gardener ; for though he
does not necessarily dig the ground, nor plant his own cabbages, he
pays others for doing the Tabour and attending to his garden, from
his head-man downwards, and takes an extraordinary interest in the
results. Again, the poor man that cultivates a rod of ground is a
Gardener, and takes as much pride, or as much interest in his avo-
cation
as he most wealthy ; in fact, every body who takes an inte-
rest in a flower, or a vegetable, and studies its progress, is a Gar-
dener. Gardeners exist in all stations, from the labourer to the
prince, just as the poorest soldier in the ranks is a soldier, as well as
all above him, up to the Duke of Wellington ; in fact, as Mr. Hud-
son sae or sings, " We're all Gardeners." The sort of Journal re-
quired, is one containing news of every thing that passes; notices
of all the new plants, constant reports of proceedings of all meet-
ings; systematic exposure of all evils; censure of all abuses; and
above all things, when other interests are advancing at the expense
of Gardening, a bold and uncompromising defence until the tide is
turned, and, if necessary, an attack on its enemies afterwards. All
these are essential. Turnpike Bills' the Tithe Question, Taxes.
F
regulations for importing oreign produce, and many other ques-
tions, have, may, and will again arise for the exercise of the whole
strength and influence of a Journal ; and the superiority of a weekly
over a monthly publication requires no comment. Had there
been such a Journal in the days of alarm, when the malicious re-
port that vegetables were injurious to health and promoted Cholera
was spread abroad, the gross delusion could hare been dispelled in a
few days, instead of operating in the ruinous abstinence of the pub-
lie for months, destroying thousands of pounds worth of business,
and reaching all the classes, from the grower to the consumer.
The announcement of two such Journals threatened to split the
science into two parties, and, what is worse, to double the expense
of making any thing public ; for as, in all probability, one or the
ether would find its way into the hands of every one interested in
any branch of Horticultnre, and neither of the Journals mach more
than half, whatever it might be desirable to advertise, must have
appeared in both ; and it is impossible not to foresee many other
disadvantages. Happily, by an arrangement between the parties,
the united strength of both will now be devoted to one Newspaper
only, and this can be transmitted by the ordinary Post free of ex-
pense. Advertisements inserted will reach every Town and Vil-
lage is the Kingdom, and if we do not greatly underrate the classes
who delight in Horticulture, from the highest to the lowest, there
will searcely be found one who does not, in the source of the week,
peruse the Gardener's Gazette.
The Newspaper will give a faithful record of all great political
events abroad and at home, but it will not venture to give a political
opinion of its ow*. Where a question is sufficiently important to
deserve it, the most talented article that shall have appeared during
the week on each side shall be inserted, that the readers may be
well acquainted with the subject, and the name of the papers in
which they have appeared shall be quoted. But when a question
which affects the interests of any branch of Horticulture or Agricul-
ture may be agitated, the Gardeners' Gazette shall be foremost in
the field, and not the least effective.
It remains only for the Gardenersa-we repeat again—from the
Duke downwards, to do their duty by their Gazette, as faithfully as
the Gazette will do its duty by them, and some of these duties the
Proprietors will, in all modesty, veuture to point out :-
1. The Nobility and Gentry through Out the kingdom should pro-
vide their Gardeners with it, free of expense.
2. The Gardeners who may not be so supplied, should order it
nevertheless, and being practical men, should, whenever they have
an opportunity, supply original papers on the cultivation, manage-
ment, and propagation, &c., of plants, descriptions of new once,
&e. &c.
3. The Secretaries of Horticultural Societies should exhort all
their members to order it, advertise all their shows in it, and supply
immediate returns of the
prizes awarded at such shows (which re-
turns will be gratuitously inserted as News), and communicate
whatever may be deemed useful information.
4. The members of such Societies who take in a weekly paper,
should immediately order their Newsmen to change it for the Gar-
dener's Gazette ; such as do not take a Sunday paper, and cannot
well afford it, should induce three or four others to join them.
b. Nurserymen should not only order it for their own guidance,
for which it will be as necessary as their own stock-books, but they
should also inform every customer of the advantages of possessing in
a Newspaper a record of every thing that is passing in the Horti-
cultural and Agricultural world.
6. Nurserymen and dealers in every thing appertaining to horti-
culture, floriculture, arboriculture, farming and gardening, should
adopt the Journal as the means of publishing their Advertisements,'
which, whether lists of plants, trees, shrubs, flowers, seeds, or de-
scriptions of tools, implements, machines, or of land, farming stock,
or erops,—Auctioneer's catalogues, farms, houses or gardens to let,
of
or any other subject, can thus be placed in a single week in the
hands
body at all interested in them.
m..e
will every
just apprise Gardeners cf all ranks that the expense of
co
nducting. a
nthe u
m:
as h
Gazettee s
ur willlu
sexceed
each
Newspaper,
w o thousand
beyond the cost of the stamp and paper,) is one penny only, it ro-
quires ten thousand copies per week to be sold to meet this ex-
pense, and of which number at present little more than five thou-
sand are ordered ; much, therefore, remains to be done before the
next year.
Orders the regular delivery of the Gardener's Gazette may
ors
be given to any Newsman or Clerk of the Road in the country, any
Newsman in London, and in the /want of either of these being in
the neighbourhood, of a person who may require it, a letter ((post
paid) to the Editor, care of Westley and Clatton, 162, Piccadilly,
and 7, Windsor-court, Strand, will insure t e delivery by post on
s'oirdeprlsenifoerntsadvsee.drtissemBceen.
Sunday mornings.
advertisements,
ronr
iogtii
ne ea,l
newßsopoalipse,
rpsrei notnst,arnlainngts, flow
reports,er
articles, and every other communication for the Editor, may be
d
forwarded as above. Where the articles are worth the cari
postage, of course it is not expected that it should be p aidagbevatille
s
sender ; but in all matters of inquiry or orders the communication
must be postage and carriage free.
Seals of Advertisements, in both Town and Country Editions.
Seven Lines, 55., above that umber, gd. per line.