11 PREFACE. 



bers many queries will be found requiring answers. We are 

 fully assured many of our Readers have it in their power to 

 give useful and practical replies, and we do most respectfully 

 ask their aid. It is our intention to commence answers to all 

 past queries in every former Number that have not had 

 answers, and such to be embodied in every future Number. 



A monthly notice of all new Works on Gardening and Re- 

 views, and remarks on every thing published in them, or in 

 monthly and quarterly publications on Floriculture, will be 

 given every montht 



We again beg to record our grateful acknowledgments to 

 our Friends who have so kindly contributed the valuable and 

 interesting information, which we have had the pleasure to 

 insert in the present Volume. We most respectfully solicit 

 their continued co-operation. Some persons are deterred 

 from communicating information, because the subject they 

 are so familiar with does not appear of the interest it has in 

 reality. Whatever is an improvement, however small, we 

 shall be glad to be entrusted with them, and we will 

 present them in a form that will be creditable to the author 

 as well as ourselves, and thus contribute to make the Cabinet 

 still more useful and valuable in proportion. 



Downham, November 20th, 1838. 



