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scend, even at the line of greatest difficulty, namely, the midway be¬ 
tween any two drains, is, if the drains be six yards apart, as three to one; 
and if they are five yards apart, it will only be as two and a half to 
one. This, it is believed, will be admitted, is a system of drainage 
at once simple and powerful, and when it is stated, from somewhat 
extensive experience, that its cost does not, under ordinary circum¬ 
stances, exceed forty shillings per statute acre, it will not, it is hoped, 
be rejected on the score of being too expensive. 
MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 
I.—QUERIES, ANSWERS, REMARKS, &c. 
A Word on the Animadversions of the Editor of the 
Gardeners’ Magazine. —The Editor of the Gardener's Maga¬ 
zine , in reviewing our Magazine of Botany , Vol. 10, p. 230, has made 
assertions which we feel bound to notice, not with a view of afford¬ 
ing any explanation to that gentleman, but merely because the para¬ 
graph may have fallen in the way of some of our readers. 
Passing over the greater part of the Editor’s scurrilous remarks, 
as being beneath our notice, we feel happy in being able to say, that 
“ the Cotton-printers, Porcelain-manufacturers, and Paper-makers” of 
our country, to whom Mr. Louden contemptuously recommends the 
perusual of our work, (and who by the way are not a despicable class 
of persons) are in so flourishing a condition as to purchase, every 
month, betwixt two and three thousand numbers of our Magazine of 
Botany. 
One grievous charge urged against us is, that for the Horticultu¬ 
ral Register , we occasionally extract articles from the Gardener’s 
Magazine, and that we have on two or three occasions copied wood- 
cuts to illustrate the same!! We plead guilty to the charge, but 
could never dream that in so doing we were sinning so grievously as 
this Editor would persuade his readers. For although the Horticul¬ 
tural Register has been in circulation something more than three 
years, this offence is just now, for the first time, pointed out to us. 
As a proof that we have not deviated from our original intention, 
we submit the following extract from our introduction, Vol. 1, p. 3. 
“ We shall not only present to the readers of the Horticultural 
Register, valuable original communications from our friends, but we 
