Queries, Ansxcers, Remarks, <S)'c. 'i2o 
marks you make on the usefulness of becoming acquainted with our natural wild 
plants, and the method of forminti;' a collection of speciiuens. I am only a novice 
myself, in Bptany, and endeavoured to collect some of the plants which yon men- 
tion as coming- into flower in August. I however, found •3;reat difficulty in re- 
cognizing them. It occurred to me, therefore, that this article of the Naturalist's 
Calendar might be greatly improved, if, in addition to the names of some of tho 
plants which flower ib the successive inonlhs, tliefe were also given a wood-cut 
characteristic of each plant mentioned ; if it were ovily a leaf o^ tlie plant it would 
be \iseful to guide beginners. 
If a dozen, or even half-a-dozen plants were thiis^iven every month, your peri- 
odical would, in a few years, contain within itself u complete Flora of British 
Native Plants. I am, Sirs, yours, he. 
M M. 
Obsbkvations on the IIorticultoral Register. — Gentlemen, I have read 
with much pleasure, the three numbers which have appeared of the Horticultural 
Register, and if I have not received instruction fioni them, it is not the fault of 
yourselves, or of your correspondents; but my object in addressing you is not alto- 
gether to praise, (although great praise is your due,) but to RUike a few observa- 
tions, which I think, if followed, may conduce to the success of the Register. 
However, I fear not, that when a few more numbers have enabled you to com- 
plete and perfect the arrangement of your plans, that you will receive that sup- 
port from the public that your most sanguine wishes may desire. I would depre- 
cate in particular any controversy, or any thing which may lead to controversy 
with Loudon and the Gardener's Magazine: the sea on which your keels are 
launched is sufficiently large for each to keep his own course, without running- 
foul of each other — if you do, both will founder; but I feel certain from the good 
feeling you have already shown, that your pages will not become a vehicle for 
attacks ai;d reflections on Loudon's Magazine. You may see the sands and 
sboals on which he has struck — do you avoid them. 
In your Catalogue of British Works on Gardening, you have hitherto omitted 
any notice of Messrs. CMiandler's and Booth's Catnellise. If it comes within your 
scheme, I would have short notices, similar to those in the Gardener's Maoazine, 
on this work, — the cultivation of the Camellia and its varieties are so rapidly ex- 
tending, that such notices would be useful, agreeable, and entertaining, to those 
of your readers who have not the means to purchase Messrs. C.'s and B.'s expen- 
sive, but valuable work. 
In your Notes to Readers and Correspondents in the last Register, you express 
your intention of inserting, in your forthcoming numbers, one, or more papers on 
the cultivation of various Fruits, Flowers, and Vegetables, — the plan is o-ood ; 
and I trust the friends who are undertaking the task of publishing the papers, 
will imitate the simplicity and clearness of Mr. Revell, in his papers on the 
culture of the Auric\ila and Tulip, and of Mr. G. Harrison in his, on the Pelaro-o. 
nium. But allow me no ask Mr. G. H., what he intends by vegetable mould ? 
he mentions vegetable mould and decayed leaves — are not decayed leaves veo-p. 
table mould ?— At least they area vegetable mould. 
The plan of N. B , in your last nunber, respecting the list of new plants is also 
good, so far as regards an annual list. This could be done without encroach- 
ing much on your short space. The lists from the nurseries during the win- 
ter season will be short, and will give room for the annual list of new plants. But 
N. B. asks too much, in wishing fur a list of plants inlroduced within the last ton 
years. 
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