X PREFACE. 



turists, who have expressed their desire to 

 become acquainted with the process of my mode 

 of cultivation. 



Considering it superfluous to enlarge this 

 work by unnecessary or controversal obser- 

 vations, I have confined myself entirely to those 

 directions, upon which I have uniformly acted ; 

 and have endeavoured to reduce them into 

 as plain and simple a form as possible ; at 

 the same time observing to omit nothing which 

 can be of utility in this difficult and hitherto 

 imperfectly understood branch of horticulture. 



Several gardeners, who are now very eminent 

 in their profession, have placed themselves under 

 my tuition, and I flatter myself are perfectly 

 satisfied that the instruction they received, was 

 fully adequate to the compensation required; 

 and perfectly convinced them of the superiority 



