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PART V, 
MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE, 
ON NATURAL-HISTORY, HORTICULTURE, AND RURAL AFFAIRS. 
I.—QUERIES, ANSWERS, REMARKS, &c. 
"Hints to the Conductors. —Gentlemen, I have been a reader of your Regis¬ 
ter from the commencement of its publication, and have been much pleased 
with its contents. The object of my writing is to concur with “ a Lover of 
Gardens,” in stating that I think your intention of giving Portraits, &c., of 
. Horticulturalists and Naturalists, will be no improvement to your work, that 
I in common with several of your readers with whom I am acquainted, would 
much rather see an engraving of some plant, fruit, or flower, in its stead, 
which for economy might, I should think, be executed on stone, and three or 
four in a plate. 
I think there must be some error in the article on the cultivation of the 
Ranunculus, p. 197. The author certainly cannot intend that the loam should 
be put on the bed eighteen inches deep, and then immediately, (as it would 
appear,) move the whole of it by trenching, for the purpose of putting the 
cow-dung at the bottom, which it appears is done in October. I can only 
presume that he means the loam should be put on some months before, but 
any benefit in that, I cannot find. 
I hope you will add the Polyanthus and Magnolia to the List of Flowers of 
which you intend giving articles on the cultivation of. I hope when you 
write on the Grape, you will give some instructions for the cultivation of it 
in pots, in cucumber frames, for the benefit of Florists who may use them for 
the protection of their Carnations, and other flowers, in the winter, and who 
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would like to cultivate Grapes in the summer, which I am inclined to think 
might be done very advantageously, even without heat, and I for one, should 
like to try it. 
I am, Gentlemen, your obedient Servant, 
Holloway^ Nov. 19, 1831. Rusticus in Urbe. 
Remarks. —Gentlemen, I was so delighted with the three first numbers of 
your work, which were put into my hands late last night, tliat I could not 
retire to rest till 1 had more than skimmed them through. . 1 admire the plan, 
and approve of the general performance; at the same time lam sorry to see 
the pages disfigured by bad spelling of scientific names, which I mention, not 
for the sake of finding fault, but for correction. I allude to the names of some 
of the insects. I consider it of great importance that attention should be paid 
to this subject, as the derivation, which often in a single word explains the 
nature, habit, or colour, &c. of an insect, is, by false spelling, entirely lost. 
