INTRODUCTION. 3 
their profession, to supply us regularly with notices and descriptions, 
of eA-ery thing that will contribute to the purpose, and that these ac- 
counts may have speedy circulation, we have resolved on publishing 
the work the first day of every month. 
We shall not only present to the readers of the Horticultural Regis- 
ter, valuable Original Communications fiom our friends, but we shall 
also make extracts of every thing that we judge will promote our 
ultimate object; and such extracts will not be confined merely to 
present publications, but where anytliing of a decidedly usefid char- 
acter is found, and such having been very limited in its circulation, 
we shall avail ourselves of the opportunity of giving it insertion in 
our pages, and in so doing, it will be our endeavour to condense 
every Article in as small a space as is practicable, consistent with 
giving the true meaning ; our object in doing so is to be able to insert 
as great a fund of information in our little work as the limits of its 
pages will allow. 
In the Review department, we have commenced with works pub- 
lished since the year 1 830, and we intend omitting no work of merit, 
that comes within the range of subjects to be ti-eated of; we shall at 
aU times rigidly abstain fi-om introducing anything of a political 
tendency, but shall endeavour to confine ourselves to what we have 
before stated. 
A Monthly Horticultural Calendar will be given at the end of each 
number, embracing every thing new in cultivation. This we judge 
will be found veiy useful, as it will enable the reader to see what is 
necessary to be attended to in the coming month, in whatever depart- 
ment it belongs, which will render it unnecessary for him to have 
recourse to other Works for calendarial information. 
We also intend furnishing our readers, at the end of each volume, 
with a hst of all Fruits and Flowers which have been previously named 
in it, with reference to the page, &c., and which of them we consider 
most worthy of attention; and in addition to this, a general list of 
all the best Fruits and Vegetables in cultivation : so that any one 
wishing to make a selection for a small or large garden, will see at 
once, which are considered most desirable, at what time the Fruits 
are natm'ally in perfection, how long they generally keep, and those 
will be marked which are known to be most valuable : thus placing 
without any research, a guide for materials to plant any extent of 
Fruit Trees of the best possible kinds. We consider that an Annual 
List of this kind, will give universal satisfaction to oiu* readers. 
On inserting the account of Horticultiu'al Meetings, &c., care will 
be taken that such only are admitted, as accord with the determination 
of the Conductors in the following details. We be beg to notice, that 
