The Gardeners' Chronicle
The Gardeners ' Chronicle was a British gardening magazine that was published from 1841 to 1986 in the UK.
The magazine was founded in 1841 by Joseph Paxton, Charles Wentworth Dilke, John Lindley and William Bradbury. They originally appeared in an original newspaper format, with national and international news, but also lots of submissions by gardeners and scientists, covering almost every conceivable aspect of horticulture.
First editor was the British botanist John Lindley, later the architect, botanist and gardener Joseph Paxton. In the Gardeners' Chronicle have published, among others, Charles Darwin and Joseph Dalton Hooker.
By 1873, the title was Gardeners ' Chronicle and agricultural Gazette, then most of the time Gardeners' Chronicle with subtitles A weekly illustrated journal of Horticulture and allied subjects. From 1956 to 1963, the title Gardeners' Chronicle and Gardening was illustrated; 1964-1966 he was the Gardeners ' Chronicle, Gardening Illustrated and the Greenhouse. From 1966 to 1986 setting was the title again Gardeners' Chronicle with repeatedly changing subtitles.
For attention, the magazine provided, among other things due to their extensive advertising part. When triggered by the Great Exhibition of 1851 and a reduction of the tax on glass quickly increased the demand for small glass greenhouses, the edition was peppered with advertisements for glass houses, many of which were designed by Joseph Paxton himself. Thus, Paxton created a erkleckliches extra income.
1851 edition was estimated at 6,500 copies. In 1986, the magazine was set as such; it is, however, as part of the magazine Horticulture Week in a sense continues.