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compiled and arranged wholly from English publications, without 

 paying the least attention to the great difference between the cli- 

 mates of the two countries: these compilations, too, by individuals 

 W'holly uninformed upon the subject, have been rendered still more 

 objectionable; and, passing often under the name of original infor- 

 mation, have been the guide of many cultivators, who have found 

 out, too late, that a strict adherence to the rules frequently laid 

 down has only ended in disappointment. These, with an obsti- 

 nate prejudice to practise gardening emperically, to mark out no 

 new track which reason may dictate, or the alteration of climate, 

 or change of soil or situation require, and an utter dislike to all 

 book gardening whatever, have been the principal causes of so 

 limited a knowledge upon the subject. 



It was at this period, when the number of farming and gar- 

 dening periodicals in the country was very limited, that this 

 work, the title of which we have placed at the head of this arti- 

 cle, made its appearance. The author was well known as pos- 

 sessing considerable knowledge upon the subject, having prac- 

 tised market gardening upwards of seventeen years. The ready 

 sale of six editions of the work, and its passage to a seventh, 

 are good evidences that the information he has given to the pub- 

 lic has been of such a kind as to render it an excellent guide 

 both to the market gardener, the amateur, and the gentleman. 

 It is so long since it first made its appearance that it may seem al- 

 together superfluous to notice it at this time; but as this edition 

 contains many additions and improvements, and as many of 

 our readers may have never seen it, we are glad to avail our- 

 selves of an opportunity to make some extracts. 



Commencing the volume are some " General Remarks on the 

 management of the Kitchen Garden :" these embrace some 

 excellent hints, and the following we commend to the attention 

 of the gardener. 



" Previous to entering on the work of a garden, the gardener should 

 lay down rules for his future government. In order to this, he should 

 provide himself with a blank book. In this he should first lay out a 

 plan of his garden, allotting a place for all the different kinds of vege- 

 tables he intends to cultivate. As he proceeds in the business of plant- 

 ing his grounds, if he were to keep an account of every thing he does 

 relative to his garden, he would soon obtain some knowledge of the 

 art. This the writer has done for the last seventeen years, and he flat- 

 ters himself that a publication of the results of his practice will be in- 

 teresting and useful to his readers. 



" If gardeners were to make it a rule to record the dates and particu- 

 lars of their transactions relative to tillage, planting, 8cc., they would know 

 when to expect their seeds to come up, and how to regulate their crops 

 for succession; and, when it is considered that jilants of the Brassica, 

 or cabbage tribe, are apt to get infected at the roots, if too frequently 

 planted in the same ground, and that a rotation of crops in general is 

 beneficial, it will appear evident that a complete register of everything 

 relative to culture is essential to the well-l)euigof a garden." 



