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PART V. 
MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE, 
ON NATURAL -HISTORY, HORTICULTURE, AND RURAL AFFAIRS. 
I.— QUERIES, ANSWERS, REMARKS, &c. 
Annual List op Fkuit-Tbebs and Flowers. — Gen tlemen, observing in your 
last number of the Horticultural Peg-ister, in answer to a question there askeu, 
that the I2tb number would coini>lete the First Volume, and contain the index ; 
and finding on reference to the introduction in No. 1, pag-e 3, that you propo.se 
'* furnishing your readers, at the end of each volume, with a list of all fruils and 
flowers which have been previously named in it, and which you consider most 
worthy of attention, in addition to which, you propose giving a general list of ull 
the best fruits and vegetables in cultivation;" and I hope you will include liow- 
ers whether old or new, as well annuals as others, "so that any one wishing to 
make a selection for a small or large garden, will see at once which are consi- 
dered most desirable." I certainly think with you, an annual list of this kind, 
will be a great acquisition, particularly to amateurs, and those who keep the 
management of their little spot of garden-ground in their own hands, like luyself ; 
but as a subscriber to your Register from its commencement, and intending to con- 
tinue so, give me leave to say, I think the time the lists &c. will come out with 
the 12th number, in June, this year, and consequently the same every year, (as I 
suppose each volume will be of the same size, 12 numbers,) a most inconvenient 
one, as most seeds will be provided and in the ground before that time; it will 
throw any person, wishing to make a selection from your lists, a season back, 
when he would wish to reap the earliest possible advantage from the lists. Now 
give nie leave to suggest, that I think the December n\imber would be much pre- 
ferable for completing the volume, and containing the list, &c., as we should 
then be enabled to make a selection, and provide seeds, plants, &c., in good time 
before the season commenced, when they would be required. If you could there- 
fore manage to give the promised lists, &c., and index for the first 6 numbers to 
the beginning of this year, in your next month's Register, or if the time would 
not permit, even in the one for April, I think it would be very desirable to many, 
and no inconvenience to any one, as the first six numbers might be bound up in a 
thin volume, or the lists and selections might be given in either of these two num- 
bers, and the general index deferred till the end of the present year, and the 
whole 18 numbers bound up as one volume, wliich would not be an inconve- 
nient size, being very little thicker than Loudon's Gardener's Magazine. In 
giving the lists of flowers, or the selection of the most desirable, (particularly 
annuals,) I suggest it would be an improvement, (if not your present intention of 
doing so, and not causing you much extra trouble,) to give the height, time of 
blowing, continuance in bloom, colour of the flower, and whether hardy or tender, 
annual or perennial, and bow raised ; this I think might be easily done, some- 
thing after the manner of Loudon's Encyclopaedia of Plants. 
