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PREFACE. 



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This book was written with a view of furnishing a low- 

 priced, comprehensive American work on Landscape, or 

 more properly. Ornamental Gardening. A great degree 

 of conciseness was aimed at, with the desire to bring a 

 large amount of information on all departments of the 

 subject into a small compass. And now the completed 

 work goes forth in the hope that it will more fully meet 

 the want for information of this kind than any work ever 

 issued in this country, at even several times its price. 



I acknowledge with great pleasure the help found — 

 especially in preparing the lists and descriptions of trees, 

 shrubs and j^lants, in the works of J. C. Loudon, "W. 

 Robinson, Josiah Hoopes, Frank J. Scott, and a few 

 others, whose names appear in their proper places in tlie 

 body of the book. Mention must also be made of the 

 kindness of Messrs. Ellwanger & Barry, of Rochester, 

 ^. Y., in at all times throwing open their nursery and 

 specimen grounds, to my inspection, as an aid in pre- 

 paring the descriptions in this dej^artment. 



To Dr. George Thurber, editor of the American Agri- 

 culturist, I am specially indebted for valuable aid and 

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