PREFACE. 



In an annual address to the readers of theFLORicuLTURAL Cabinet, 

 we are aware it is expected of us to point out in the volume completed 

 the accomplishment of past promises, and state our purposes as to the 

 future; also to express our gratitude for the unceasing encourage- 

 ment which has been afforded us, and mention the sources we rely 

 upon for perpetuating and extending the countenance with which we 

 have been through another year so extensively and liberally favoured. 



By referring to the prefatory remarks of last volume, our readers 

 will find the recorded promises we made, and in glancing over the 

 pages of the present one, they will obtain a truer opinion of their 

 fulfilment than we can allow ourselves here to express. We hesitate 

 not however to say, that the present volume is superior in every point 

 to any previous one, and that, as a Floral publication, our work not 

 only stands on an eminence far beyond any other in point of cir- 

 culation, but in the subjects introduced into its pages as to their 

 real utility. To attain this elevated position, we are deeply sensible 

 that it has been by the generous aid of a Floral Public ; and in order 

 to retain this advancement, we look especially to them, and most 

 respectfully solicit a continuance of their aid. 



For the past, we beg again to record our grateful sense of obligation 

 to them, and our utmost exertions shall be directed to render each 

 successive Number worthy of their continued confidence and support 

 by adopting every available means for maintaining increasing interest 

 and usefulness. The repeated kindness of our correspondents and 

 readers justifies our expectations as to future assistance, and as it will 

 lay us under additional obligations to be grateful, we pledge to give 

 the proof by our deeds. 



Downham, 

 November 22nd, 1841. 



