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QUERIES AND REMARKS. 
(ire, had his public influence been equal to his astonishing Horticul¬ 
tural abilities ! !! It is unfortunate for him, that the gardeners of 
the 19th century have so little penetration, and possess such a degree 
of apathy, that the Treatise has scarcely attracted their notice, for 
any other purpose than to laugh at its contents. In no single in¬ 
stance throughout our travels, have we met with a hot-house erected 
on Mr. Loudon’s improved principle. 
Not being in the habit of exciting the risible faculties of our rea¬ 
ders, we forbear giving an engraving, being indisposed to put them 
to any extra expense to stay the dangerous symptoms of excessive 
laughter. We content ourselves by merely stating, that the improve¬ 
ment consists in having a large pair of Blacksmiths Bellows fixed 
in the back wall, to nourish the plants with occasional blasts of fresh 
air. 
But to return to the charges brought against us,—Mr. Loudon 
says, that our Magazine of Botany contains “ more plagiarisms than 
the Horticultural Register.” We suspect by this he means, that in our 
details of culture we resemble other works, on the same subjects. 
Our readers need not be told, that where the authors are practical 
men, a resemblance cannot be avoided, unless success be put out of 
the question. 
To prove the truth of his assertions, the readers of the Gardener’s 
Magazine are referred to the wood cuts given in our Magazine of 
Botany, pages 12, 23, 24, 36, and 47, which the Editor very gravely 
assures his readers are either fac-similes of cuts first given in the 
Gardener’s Magazine or very trifling variations from them, taken 
without the slightest acknowledgement. 
The first, on p. 12, is a figure of the mode of packing Auriculas in a 
box, to send to a distance, given in the Horticultural Register, Vol. 
2, page 403. Now we thought, when the Editor gave a figure very 
dissimilar to ours, even in the mode of packing, in the Gardener’s 
Magazine, Vol. 7, page 717, that the practice having been followed 
by florists for probably half a century, we had no cause, as practical 
men, to refer to his work to learn how to pack Auriculas. 
The figure of Seibes Improved Syringe page 23, of our Magazine 
of Botany, we copied from the Gardener’s Magazine, and acknow- 
leged doing so, (see Horticultural Register Vol. 1, page 710,) for we 
had not, at that time, an opportunity of seeing one ; but this syringe 
having since been circulated through so many gardens, we thought 
it quite unnecessary to prepare another figure from a real syringe, 
when we already possessed the wood cut previously inserted. 
The detached fumigator, Mag. Bot., page 24, and Horticultural 
