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PART V. 
MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE, 
ON NATURAL HISTORY, HORTICULTURE, AND RURAL AFFAIRS. 
I— QUERIES, ANSWERS, REMARKS, &c. 
Remarks on the Horticultural Register. — Gentlemen, I was much pleased 
to see the announcement of your Journal, and immediately became a subscriber. 
As I am very anxious for its success, 1 beg to state that I think you have occupied 
by far too much of your space in mere details of the contents of Edwards' Botan- 
ical Register, and other works of the same class ; and as your work is chiefly for 
practical men, your pages might be more advantageously filled. 
Your Revievv of Lindley's "Guide to the Orchard and Kitchen Garden" is lit- 
tle more than an extract ; you should tell your readers what the book is. The 
title of the book and the name of the author make me desirous of purchasing it, 
but as I know little more than that, I cannot afford 16s. on speculation. * 
I observed with great satisfaction your intention of inserting papers on the best 
mode of cultivating Flowers, Fruits, and Vegetables, and I trust you will be able 
to make your journal a real Encyclopaedia of Horticulture ; but after your promise 
to accomplish this important object, you propose to do that which will totally 
change the character of your Magazine, and which will, in my opinion, have a 
tendency greatly to diminish its interest with a large class of yonr readers — I al- 
lude to your intention of giving Portraits of Gardeners and Naturalists, with me- 
moirs of their lives. Now, I beg to suggest to you, that in place of this, you 
give regularly, or occasionally, as you may be able, a coloured figure of some new 
or rare plant, after the manner of the Botanical Magazine, Botanical Register, 
and similar works. I hope you will take this into your serious consideration, for 
I am convinced it would give a great and enduring interest to your Journal, while 
your proposed plan would put an end to its circulation in some quarteis that I am 
acquainted with. 
Hoping you will receive these remarks in the same friendly spirit that they are 
given, I am, Gentlemen, yours, respectfully, 
Nottinghamshire, Sept. 1831. A Lover of Gardens. 
Hints to the Conductors. — Gentlemen, allow me to congratulate both your, 
selves and the public on the appearance, and I hope, the establishment of your new 
periodical. Such a work has long been wanted, and yours, judging from the 
numbers already published, promises well to supply this want. 
I wish to communicate, (with your permission,) a few thoughts on the nature 
and utility of your Horticultural Register. In the First place I would observe, 
that by publishing your work at so low a price, you have most effectually con- 
* We refer our Correspondent, to the latter part of our Review, in the last number, and if 
anjrjother information is requisite, we shall fuel liappy in communicating it, for his further 
satisfaction. Conductors. 
