useful information, as a depository of easy reference, that will 
ultimately prove of high value to the horticulturist, and the 
philosopher. 
A continued and still augmented patronage now enables us to 
offer to our subscribers another tribute of gratitude. In a pecu- 
niary point of view the most unprecedented success alone could 
warrant a further enlargement of our work. As, however, it 
would be advantageous to every cultivator of flowers to possess 
a regular record of every new plant, as it is introduced or becomes 
known in Great Britain, we have made arrangements for adding 
to each subsequent number of the Botanic Garden, a Floral Reg- 
ister, in addition to the Auctarium. In this we intend to give, 
monthly, every requisite particular of nearly twenty newly intro- 
duced or interesting plants, belonging either to the stove, the 
greenhouse, or the open garden ; and we hope to illustrate it in 
a manner that shall render it, ultimately, one of the most com- 
plete works of reference ever attempted in this department of 
science. Like the Auctarium, it is intended for separation from 
the Botanic Garden, to form an independant volume. Thus, 
three distinct works will be proceeded with simultaneously, con- 
stituting a body of garden knowledge, in such forms, as we trust, 
will be considered unique. 
By these arrangements we may hope to afford some assistance 
in the universal search after knowledge. Little, however, can 
the most ardent pursuit of man attain ; for, as Dr. Roget so 
truly says, “ Measured on the vast scale of the universe, the 
globe we inhabit appears but as an atom j and yet, within the 
compass of this atom, what an inexhaustible variety of objects 
is contained : what an endless diversity of phenomena is pre- 
sented ; what wonderful changes are occurring in rapid and 
perpetual succession ! Throughout the whole series of terres- 
trial beings, what studied arrangements, what preconcerted ad- 
aptations, what multiplied evidences of intention, what signal 
proofs of benificent design exist to attract our notice, to excite 
our curiosity, and to animate our enquiries.” 
