HORTICULTURAL REGISTER. 
July 1st, 1831. 
INTRODUCTION. 
On the introduction of a new periodical in the present day, when 
publications of almost every description so greatly abound, there may 
appeal' at first sight considerable difficulty to explain the motives which 
have induced the Conductors of the Horticultural Register, to add to 
the number of those already in print, by bringing before the public what 
may seem an unneccessary work. As we feel ourselves thus called 
upon to state the reasons of presentation, we shall endeavour to do 
so, in as brief and explicit a manner as we can. 
In complying with the customary formality of a preface, we con¬ 
ceive it unnecessary to pursue the usual method of Editors, by at¬ 
tempting to prove the decided advantages and enjoyments, afforded 
by attention to the arts or subjects upron which tliey treat. The 
subjects comprised in the present Work, will embrace eveiy thing 
valuable and usefid in Horticulture, Natural History, and Rural 
Economy; and judging from the almost universal, and increasing 
pursuit after an extended acquaintance with these, we are fiilly satis¬ 
fied, that to dilate on their being advantageous, and affording enjoy¬ 
ment, would, in the present enlightened age, be an unpardonable 
presumption : for it is an admitted, because an indisputable fact, that 
an extensive acquaintance with these subjects on which we propose to 
treat, is both of real utility, and peculiarly pleasing. 
It is evident that a taste for Horticulture, in all its branches, both 
of Vegetable Gulture, and Propagation, also Landscape and xArchi- 
tectural Gardening, has, within the last twenty years, veiy rapidly 
increased, and a corresponding improvement has consequently at¬ 
tended it; for at no period of time has it reached so high a state of 
perfection as the present. This has been effected in a great measure 
by the readiness of Garden Proprietors, in general, to afford facilities 
to their Gardeners, in order to encourage them to attempt at improve¬ 
ments, and the results of the labour of these practical Gardeners, and 
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