INTRODUCTORY REMARKS 



TO THE SECOND EDITION. 



THE gratification derived by every Author at the call for 

 new editions of his works, is now my happy experience. 

 Not on account of the circulation of a few books do I 

 rejoice, but because of the estimation in which their con- 

 tents are held, both by the literary and practical part of 

 the community. 



Were I to publish the testii^Hlals of approval, and of 

 benefits conferred, a volume mn^t be added to the pre- 

 sent. But, fearing that such an appendage might be mis- 

 construed, I must leave the inquirer to discover the value 

 of my exertions by the continued promulgation of my work, 

 which, independent of the demand at home, has been re- 

 quired for many foreign countries, including the East and 

 West Indies, America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, 

 Africa, Van Diemen's Land, &c. 



Far from wishing to indulge in the vanity naturally 

 arising from success, I would have avoided the publication 

 of a second edition ; and therefore authorised the Messrs . 

 Baxter of Lewes to embody my writings in their ' Library 

 of Agriculture,' where they now occupy a prominent place. 

 Extracts have also been constantly circulated through the 

 public papers ; but the country still requiring the original 



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