Iv PREFACE.

account, due to the Council and Secretary of the Linnzan Society; to the Council and Secretary of the Horticultural Society; to Robert Brown, Esq. the possessor of the Banksian library; and to William Forsyth, Esq., whose collection of British works on Gardening is more than usually complete.

It remains only to mention, as a key to this work, that to save room, the prenems and other additions to names of persons are not inserted; only contracted titles of the books referred to are given; and the names of gardens or country residences are mentioned, with- out, in many cases, designating their local situation. 3y turning to the General Index, the names of persons will be found, with the addition of their prenoms and other titles, where known, at length; and there the abridged titles of books are also given complete, and the names of residences, accompanied by that of the county or country in which they are situated. The botanical nomenclature which has been followed is that of Sweet’s Hortus Suburbanus Lon- dinensis, with only one or two exceptions; the reasons for which are given where they occur. The systematic names of insects, or other animals, or of minerals, are generally those of Linnzus: some ex- ceptions are also noted. In various parts of the work etymological and other explanations will be found, which, to one class of readers, may be unnecessary. But it is to be considered that we address ourselves to Practical Gardeners as well as to the Patrons of Gar- dening; and our opinion is, that to enlighten, and generally to raise the intellectual character of the former, will ultimately be found the most efficient mode of improving them in their profession, and thus rendering them more truly valuable to the latter.

By referring to the Kalendarial Index, those parts of this work which treat of Garden Culture and Management may be consulted monthly, as the operations require to be performed; and by recourse to the General Index, the whole may be consulted in detached por- tions, as in a Dictionary ot Gardening.

Although this second edition forms a less bulky volume than the first, yet it contains considerably more printed matter; besides above a hundred new engravings. These important additions we have been enabled to make by printing all those parts of the work which may be considered as of secondary importance, in a smaller type than that of the general text.

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