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PART V. 
MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE, 
ON NATURAL- HISTORY, HORTICULTURE, AND RURAL AFFAIRS. 
I.— QUERIES, ANSWERS, REMARKS, &c. 
Remarks. — Gentlemen, I think the Horticultural Register would be more gene- 
rally useful if you would devote a sheet, (or more or less, as may be required,) to 
each subject; — Planting, Farming, Gardening, and Natural History, — putting 
every information relating to these subjects, under their respective heads, and not 
blending the various subjects on the same page. 
By this method your work, at the end of the year, might form, if agreeable to 
the taste of the possessor, four distinct volumes, one on gardening, another on 
planting, &c. &c. An index, published yearly, under these four distinct heads, 
with reference to the page, would likewise be very useful. 
I am, gentlemen, your very obedient Servant, 
December VZ, 1831. C. B. & B. 
Remarks. — Gentlemen, as a subscriber to your Horticultural Register, which I 
hailed with much pleasure on its first appearing, on account of its useful matter, 
(having taken in a (magazine for a long period, which I have discontinued, it hav- 
ing greatly fallen off on the subject of Horticulture,) I have tp observe, that I 
derive, with some friends, much satisfaction from the mode in which you have 
conducted it as yet; but in regard to your proposal of giving Portraits of Garden- 
ers and Naturalists, with an account of their lives, we think it will, in the first 
place, be of no utility, and in the next, be subjecting yourselves to much offence 
in some quarters, and thereby endangering the success of your work. Allow me 
to propose, in lieu thereof, that you give us at times, an increase of food on the 
subject of Horticulture, with also, as a treat, a figure of some fine new plant, in 
colours. By this plan I am sure you will meet with the public's views, far more 
satisfactorily than by portraits. 
Suffer me, also, in a friendly manner, to propose that you should make your 
Register more generally known, by its appearing in the different seed shops, and 
booksellers, monthly; this plan would bring it into note, and be the means of 
greatly increasing its sale.* I remain, gentlemen, yours, respectfully, 
December I, 1831. An Admirer of Gardens. 
Portraits. — Gentlemen, you will, I suspect, be in the predicament of the man 
in the fable, who, in trying to please every body pleased nobody. 1 consider 
the giving the Portraits of eminent Horticulturalists and Naturalists, if ^faithfully 
• We have endeavoured as miicli as possible to adopt tlie very method our rorrespoiident 
proposes, and in addition to this, we have issued Shop-boards, to exhibit in the booksellers' and 
seedmen's shops, in every town in the kinsrdom. — Any person, who may wish to sell the Re- 
gister, can have a Board and Numbers, by sending their orders to our publisher,-. — COND, 
