PREFACE. 



1VT"Y inducement for publishing the following 

 pages is, in one instance, by way of answer 

 to many requests that have been made to me on 

 account of what the conductor of the Gardener's 

 Magazine subjoined to a short communication I sent 

 to him in 1826 ; and which communication, and its 

 answer, appeared in that Magazine for October, 1826. 

 I have given them below.* I beg, therefore, to say 



* ' SIB, If the three underwritten brief suggestions are worthy 

 of your acceptance, or if they will be the means of inducing any 

 person to effect something of the same kind, they are at your 



service. 



' I am, Sir, your constant reader, 



'June, 1826. 'S. FELTON.' 



'1. Would it be desirable to have A Catalogue RaisonnS of 

 Books on Horticultwe, English and foreign ? The first series of the 

 English catalogue to be brought down to the demise of Henry VIII. ; 

 the second to that of Charles II. ; the third to that of George II. ; 

 the fourth to that of George III. 



'Nearly fifty years ago, I saw in the libraries at Caen and 



