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. Wi ; PREFACE TO VOL. I 



'HE First and Second Volumes of "THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING" 

 have been so favourably received by the horticultural and botanical public, 

 that both the Publisher and Editor can congratulate themselves on the 

 success of their work, and confidently hope that the present Volume will 

 be found equal in merit, or even superior, to those which have preceded it. No 

 efforts have been spared to render the work the standard of reference on Garden 

 Botany, and on horticultural matters generally. The Editor has, in all cases, tried 

 to bring up the different subjects to our present state of knowledge, and a large 

 number of errors which occur in other gardening works are, in this, corrected. 



It would have been impossible to succeed so far in this if the resources 



of such an establishment as Kew had not been available. To the help so frequently 



and generously accorded by the Editor's colleagues and by friendly "outsiders," the 



value of the DICTIONARY OF GARDENING is doubtless to a considerable extent 

 due. 



In the vast majority of cases, the limitation of genera is in accordance with 

 the " Genera Plantarum " of Bentham and Hooker. This arrangement will, it is hoped, 

 do something to clear up the present very confused state of garden nomenclature, 

 and cause some degree of order and uniformity to be attained. Wherever it has been 

 possible to do so, the purely garden names i.e., those which occur in no botanical 

 works have been corrected, and references given to the botanical names. As a 



