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It is easy to see why Mr. Weale, the "compiler" of the Catholic Florist, declined giving the information requested. The quotations in question are all second-hand from the Circle of the Seasons. The very preface of the Florist is not original; the most valuable part of it (commencing at p. 11.) I have discovered to be a verbatim reprint from The Truthteller, or, rather, from Hone's Every-Day Book, vol. i. pp. 103. 303., where some extracts are given from the contributions to this periodical from a correspondent with the signature Crito. These quotations in Hone first drew my attention to The Truthteller, and I advertised for it, but without success. It was edited, I believe, by Thomas Andrews. I have met with the second series of this periodical, published in London in 1825, and I should be glad to get the whole of it.[1]