PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. 



It is five years since I wrote the first edition of Prac- 

 tical Floriculture. The business is a progressive one, and 

 I find that to keep pace with the advancement in many 

 points another edition is necessary. If the success of this 

 edition proves equal to that of the first, I shall be abun- 

 dantly satisfied. It gives me great satisfaction to know 

 that my first work has been the means not only of helping 

 thousands of those having a taste for floriculture to a bet- 

 ter understanding of the subject, but that it has also 

 helped hundreds of men, and some women, to drift into 

 the pleasant and profitable occupation of Commercial 

 Florists, and I have been the recipient of scores of letters 

 from these giving the credit of their success entirely to 

 " Practical Floriculture." 



In this edition is added a short treatise on the Culture 

 of Foreign Grape-vines under Glass, written by Hugh 

 Wilson, of Salem, Mass., who is well known in that sec- 

 tion as a most successful Grape Grower. 



PETER HENDERSON. 



Jersey City Heights, N. J., } 

 November 1st, 1873. f 



