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TO OUR READERS. 
“ Nothing in the universe around us is at absolute rest ” is an axiom in physics to which an 
Editor, above all other men, yields a ready assent. Nothing is ever at rest with him. 
Compositors, correctors, contributors, pressmen, are moving in regular orbits around him; and 
many a correspondent shoots across his system, resembling the comet, now T so commanding of 
notice, not only in eccentricit}^, but in fiery aspect. 
“ Last week I sent you a query, and I repeat it; if it is not answered next week, I shall 
cease subscribing to a periodical so regardless of my interest.” — “ Why do you not devote 
cmore attention to bullfinches?”—“Pray give a report of the Euddly-cum-Pipes Ploral Exhibi- 
tion.”—“ You insert many advertisements, but none about churns.”—“ Cannot you reduce your 
price?”—“You ought to increase the number of your pages.” 
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These are only a very, very small portion of the suggestions received weekly, adding to 
the testimony, that “ nothing is at absolute rest ” about the Editors of The Cottage 
Gardener. 
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Like Charity,—and needful is it that they should be very like her,—“they suffer long, and 
are kindgive a soft answer to all assailants; and, though remembering that Charity begins 
at home, they are careful that it shall not end there. 
They obtain information about bullfinches ; they show that, if they reported one local Show, 
they could not refuse to report the Show of every Euddly-cum-Pipes throughout the United 
Kingdom; they seek for a knowledge of churns, and hope that it will add to the butter on 
their bread ; and, although they cannot reduce their price, nor add to the number of their 
pages, they have largely increased their contents by widening their columns. 
Nor is this the only illustration that “ nothing is at absolute rest ” about us. We have 
increased our staff of Keporters; and our contributors in every department have been strengthened; 
whilst, to complete our evidence, that “ nothing is at absolute rest ” with The Cottage 
Gardener, we gratefully acknowledge the increased amount of its advertisements and circula¬ 
tion. May these last-named evidences not only never attain “ absolute rest,” but strengthen 
in their onward movements every week; and we desire this the more, because our readers, as i 
well as ourselves, will benefit by the power imparted by this “ perpetual motion/ 
