438 Iransartions of the Horticultural Society. 



particular circumstances of soil, situation, and climate ; for as, 

 under certain circumstances, not always easily pointed out 

 beforehand, some varieties degenerate, so, under others, cer- 

 tain varieties improve. 



Part v., from which art. 64. to 68. are taken, concludes 

 vol. vi., and is therefore accompanied by a preface. In this it 

 is stated that the present volume " contains a large body of 

 original horticultural information ; such as it may be safely 

 affirmed is not to be found in any other publication of the 

 same period. Of so great importance, indeed, has it been 

 esteemed by the public, both at home and abroad, that a very 

 considerable portion of every foreign and domestic journal, in 

 which the subject of horticulture is noticed, derives a large 

 part, and, in some cases, almost the entire of its interest from 

 extracts from these Transactions." Without in the slightest 

 degree questioning the value of the original articles in the 

 Horticultural Transactions, which is neither greater nor less 

 than that of the original articles of the Gardener's Magazine, 

 being,' with the exception of the one third of the papers written 

 by officers or servants of the Society* written by the same sort 

 of persons, and, in several cases, by the same individuals, we 

 may be allowed to state the superior claims of the Gardener's 

 Magazine in point of " importance." In the first place the 

 quantity of original matter in Part I. of the ( l 2\s.) volume of our 

 work, completed by the present Number, is nearly equal to 

 the entire matter of the (61.) quarto volume of the Horticul- 

 tural Transactions, independently of our original matter under 

 the departments of Reviews and Intelligence. Secondly, 

 though our articles are not ornamented by coloured plates, 

 or engravings from copper or steel, yet they are illustrated 

 by a greater number of engravings from wood, sufficiently 

 intelligible for all useful purposes, than is the present or any 

 former volume of the Horticultural Transactions. 



To prove any superiority in the kind of information is not 

 required ; the same persons, and sorts of persons, write in both 

 works, and therefore we claim nothing more than equality. 

 But it may be said that some papers in the Gardener's Maga- 

 zine are controversial, and, though very suitable for a maga- 

 zine, cannot be said to record horticultural science like the 

 papers in the Horticultural Transactions. We allow this, 

 but think we may very safely put against such papers in the 

 Magazine, the long descriptions of Chrysanthemums, Paeonies, 

 ind some other such papers, by officers of the Society, in the 

 Transactions. Both these sorts of papers are proper in their 

 espective works. 



