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PREFACE TO VOL. 



SHE SECOND VOLUME OF "THE ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY OF 

 GARDENING" has been compiled on the lines indicated in the Preface to 

 Vol. I., and it is confidently expected that it will prove a welcome addition to 

 the Garden Library. No pains have been spared to render the work a trust- 

 worthy one; and, in many cases, plants popularly known under some "garden" 

 name, are, for the first time in any horticultural publication, referred to their proper 

 places botanically. This often proves anything but an easy task ; the uninitiated can 

 scarcely form any idea of the time expended, and the labour involved, in tracing the 

 origin, and determining the correct nomenclature, of a host of plants with which they may 

 be perfectly familiar from a "garden" standpoint. For generic limitation, the "Genera 

 Plantarum," of Bentham and Hooker, has been followed in the great majority of cases ; 

 but several of the different sections of such huge genera as Prunua, $ewecio, &c., havo, 

 for garden purposes and convenience of reference, been kept up. 



To most of my colleagues at Kew, and also to outside friends who have taken 

 a kindly interest in this work, I am indebted for generous assistance. Special 

 mention may be made of Messrs. JAMES VEITCH AND SONS, whose unpublished 

 Monograph of the genus Odontoglossum was placed in my hands, the article 

 Odontoglossum being, to a considerable extent, re-modelled in accordance with the 

 views of Messrs. VEITCH ; the cultural directions for the genus just mentioned, as 

 well as for Oncidium, &c., were written by Mr. W. WATSON. To Messrs. PETER BARE 

 AND SON this work owes much of the information respecting Narcissus, a genus 



