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one magazine into another, is perfectly just and fair, provided the 

 one quoted from has been for some time before the public: but 

 to fill the pages of a magazine with extracts from another that has 

 just appeared, is not only unjust but absolutely wrong; any one 

 who knows the trouble of preparing an original manuscript for 

 publication, is aware that it is quite another thing from copying 

 from that which is already printed. 



We cannot refrain from quoting the language of Mr. Loudon., in 

 a review of a cotemporary work. " Supposing," he says, " it 

 were lawful to copy the greater part of one magazine, just after 

 its appearance, into another magazine sold at the same price; it is 

 evident that, while the magazine containing original matter was 

 losing, the other which copied from it would be making a hand- 

 some profit. The losing magazine would have no alternative but 

 to give up appearing, or to adopt the practice of the other, and 

 to take its articles ready prepared, from some other pubhshed 

 work. Both magazines, in consequence of this, would be ren- 

 dered almost worthless to the public." 



We hope we have said enough to convince the conductors of 

 the JVew York Farmer^ that the course which they have pursued 

 is both illiberal and unjust; illiberal — to extract so largely from 

 our magazine, — and unjust in doing so without giving due ac- 

 knowledgment for the same. We hope for the future that such 

 a practice will be discontinued. We care not how many horti- 

 cultural periodicals are projected: ours was the first which has 

 succeeded in the country, and we hope, by a continuance of the 

 same care and attention which has heretofore secured it favor, to 

 make it superior to any other that may be published. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. Domestic Notices. 



Gladiolus natalensis. — This species with me has done wonders. It 

 sent up three spikes about four feet high ; one with thirteen flowers, 

 the other two with twelve flowers each, besides a latei-al branch, with 

 three or four flowers or more. It ripened plenty of apparently perfect 

 seeds, which I planted as soon as ripe. — Yours, M. A. W., Jithens, Ga., 

 August l^th, 1836. 



Gladiolus lineutus.— This plant is very exactly figured and colored in 



