viii PREFACE. 



is often as advantageous as a knowledge of 

 that which is of positive superiority. 



That the volume may be acceptable to the 

 agriculturist, seedsman, and to all who may 

 possess, cultivate, or find pleasure in, a garden, 

 is the sincere wish of the author. 



F. B., JR. 



HINGHAM, February, 1865. 



