IV 



PREFACE. 



account, due to the Council and Secretary of the Linnaean 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 prenoms 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. By 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 Linnaeus : 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 of 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. 



J. C. L. 



Bayswater, April 8, 1824. 



