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shall also make extracts of every thing that we judge will promote 
our ultimate object : and such extracts will not merely be confined to 
present publications ; for where any thing of a decidedly useful cha¬ 
racter is found, and such having been very limited in its circulation, 
we shall avail ourselves of the opportunity of giving it insertion in 
our pages. In so doing, it will he our endeavour to condense every 
article into as small a space as is practicable, consistent with the true 
meaning. Our object in doing this, is to be able to give as much 
information in our little work, as the limits of its pages will allow.” 
Now, we appeal to our readers, whether we have not endeavoured 
to act agreeable to this our first promise. In making such extracts, 
we do no more than common justice to our readers, and no objections 
can be urged against the practice, in reference to our Register, which 
would not equally apply to every other periodical. As well might 
one newspaper be prohibited from copying from another any thing 
that is interesting, in the hope of compelling the reader of news to 
purchase a score of newspapers, for the purpose of gaining any thing 
like a correct notion of what is going on in the world. 
The Horticultural Register, and other similar miscellaneous peri¬ 
odicals differ materially from works written expressly on one subject. 
We are aware that nothing can be more unjust than that a work, over 
which another has spent many years of labour, should immediately 
on its appearance be mutilated for insertion in large Encyclopedias, 
or be wholly abridged for publication in another work. For an in¬ 
stance of this latter system, we need only refer the editor to the 
work entitled “ The Different Methods of Cultivating the Pine 
Apple in Great Britain,” by-(which looks hard at Por- 
chester Terrace,) wherein are several treatises which cost their re¬ 
spective authors many years of toil and experience, and which are 
copied nearly verbatim. 
Of all literary characters, Mr. Loudon should be the last to com¬ 
plain of copying, for no writer, in the present day, has derived so 
much benefit as himself from the honest labours of others. We 
admit, that he has effected some Original Improvements, as he is 
pleased to call them, (Original Nonsense would, we think, be a far 
more appropriate epithet,) and, but for the dread of making our 
Register the vehicle of such brain-fever nonsense, we should have of¬ 
fered an extract or two from a work of his, which he terms, “A 
Short Treatise on several Improvements recently made in Hothouses.’ 
Here the Author’s original garden abilities are discovered; and here 
the highly favoured few, who are in possession of this valuable 
“ Treatise,” may see how readily he would have set the Thames on 
