VI PREFATORY VIEW. 



The usual manner in which Kalendars have 

 hitherto been drawn up, is deviated from in 

 this Work. The various branches of Garden- 

 ing, in all that have as yet appeared, are not 

 separated, but carried, together, through the whole 

 month and year ; nor have I observed, in any 

 of them, such a thing as an alphabetical arrange- 

 ment of the plants treated of, in any department 

 of the Garden ; or that in any department (as, 

 for instance, the Kitchen Garden) the different 

 articles have been classed ; which, of course, oc- 

 casions considerable perplexity. 



In order to obviate these defects, and to sim- 

 plify the book, I have divided it into distinct 

 Gardens ; in each of which the articles are 

 classed, and alphabetically arranged, at least as 

 hx as the nature of the thing w^ill admit. To 

 each of these Gardens, too, are prefixed an In- 

 troduction, and Preliminary Sections on various 

 important subjects, immediately connected with 

 them ; which, it is presumed, will have the ef- 

 fect of rendering the work still more clear and 

 distinct. 



