PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION. 



The ordinary form in cases of reprint, with additions and explanatory notes, 

 has been departed from in the present instance with a desire to preserve the 

 book from the awkward aspect which it would necessarily present, if every 

 addition by the American editor had been included within brackets, or printed 

 in varied type. 



This edition has been greatly altered from the original. Many articles of 

 little interest to Americans have been curtailed, or wholly omitted, and much 

 new matter, with numerous illustrations, added; yet the present editor freely 

 admits, and has desired the publishers to state, that he has only followed in the 

 path 80 admirably marked out by Mr. Johnson, to whom the chief merit of the 

 work belongs. It has been an object with the publishers, and editor, to inc. ease 

 its popular character, thereby adapting it to the larger class of horticultural 

 readers in this country, and they trust it may prove what they have desired it to 

 be, an Encyclopaedia of Gardening, if not of Rural Affairs, so condensed as to 

 be within reach of most persons whom those subjects interest. 



THE PUBLISHERS. 



Philadelphia, April, 1S47. 



NOTE. 



It is evident that with a territory extending over so large a space, a monthly calendar, 

 ordireclion for cropping, &,c., cannot uniformly apply : Those who reside north or south 

 of Pennsylvania, can readily make the necessary calculations as to time. 



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