INTRODUCTION. 



We trust the following " Hints to Growers " may be found of 

 some little service to some of those who are following and who 

 intend embarking in our Industry and also to the Dilettante who 

 finds amusement in the garden. We have tried to make our 

 remarks practical and the ideas intelligible. Several paragraphs 

 have been taken over from foreign sources, as we found there our 

 own ideas very clearly expressed. Advice tendered herein to 

 growers is not theoretical but is based in nearly every instance on 

 personal experience, or the experience of others that has come 

 under our observation. The whole has been brought thoroughly 

 up to the date of c ur latest experience, which in some instances 

 readers will see it has been found necessary to alter or modify 

 from those contained in our last catalogue. No attempt has been 

 made to deal with technical questions such as the character of 

 soils, the action of manures, the budding and grafts of trees, the 

 circulation of sap, &c. ; all these matters can be found in the 

 numerous standard works on fruit culture written by much abler 

 pens than ours, and by men who have technical knowledge which 

 we make no claim to possess. 



