PEEFACE. 



Hotbeds, Levelling, Planting, Pleasure Grounds, Reserve 

 Ground, Rock-work, Seats, Shrubbery, Single Trees, Sowing 

 Seeds, Tallies, Tan, Walls, and Water, and part of several 

 other articles ; besides having read over and revised the whole 

 of the first and second editions. 



The Appendix to the work was suggested by Lord Murray, 

 of Edinburgh; to whom I am under very great obligations 

 for the valuable assistance he has rendered me, both by his 

 own letters and by those he has forwarded to me from a lady, 

 a friend of his, and from Mr. James Mac Nab, which have 

 been of great use to me in affording hints as to the subjects 

 most likely to be useful in the Appendix. 



Notwithstanding the large sale of the work (which has ex- 

 ceeded twenty-five thousand copies,) it has never been stereo- 

 typed ; but every new edition has been carefully revised, and 

 descriptions of new plants and of new discoveries in floriculture 

 have been added, so as to bring the whole down completely to 

 the present day. 



J. W. LoUDOIf. 



Bayswater, 



Janxmry Wth^ 1858. 



