In January, 1825, will be published,

BY MESSRS. LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN,

THE GARDENER’S ANNUAL REGISTER;

OR, Annals of Improvements

VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OF GARDENING,

AGRICULTURE, ARCHITECTURE, AND DOMESTIC ECONOMY, AS CONNECTED WITH

COUNTRY RESIDENCE AND TERRITORIAL PROPERTY.

CONDUCTED BY

J. C. LOUDON, F.L.S. H.S.,&c.

Author of the Encyclopedias of Gardening and of Agriculture, and Editor of the

Encyclopedias of Plants and of Domestic Economy.

THE object of this work is to collect together some account of the various improvements which are constantly making in gardening, on landed estates, and in domestic economy; and to render them readily accessible to the practical gardener, land-steward, bailiff, and others concerned in country matters. In the present state of horticultural literature, information of this kind is generally published in voluminous and expensive works, which can be purchased only by a few; or in foreign works not suited to general readers. In the case of agriculture they are commonly mixed up with commercial matters, political economy, or statistics; and often valuable discoveries in gardening, and the other arts to be registered, are lost to the public from the locality of their origin, and the want of a proper opportunity or channel of making them known.‘The proposed work will aim at remedying all these defects; first, by exhibiting the essence of all that is contained in new publications on gardening, and other branches of territorial economy; and, secondly, by original communications from gardeners, stewards, bailiffs, housekeepers, and proprietor-improvers in every part of the British isles, and in various parts of the continent, America, and the colonies. In the selection of subjects for the Gardener’s Register, gardening will be considered the main object, next those branches of agriculture which chiefly concern the improve- ment of a gentleman’s landed estate and demesne farm— such as road-making, draining, watering, and searching for water, enclosing, planting,&c.&e.; then such architectural improvements as are made on farm-buildings, cottages, walls, bridges, villages,&c.; and, lastly, such improvements in housewifery, fuynishing, cloathing, cookery, education, and rural labor, as tend to the amelioration of cottagers and the laborious classes.

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