PREFACE. 



THE Author submits the following work to the public as by 

 far the best Treatise on the Culture of the Fruit and Kitchen 

 Garden which has hitherto been produced by his pen ; because it 

 contains all the latest improvements, while the Horticulture in 

 the last edition of the Encyclopedia of Gardening was pre- 

 pared in 1834. He has bestowed more than common care in 

 compiling the present Treatise, and he has had the inestimable 

 advantage of being assisted by Mr. Thompson, the superin- 

 tendant of the fruit and culinary vegetable departments in the 

 Horticultural Society's Garden. The selections and descriptions 

 of fruits, and of culinary vegetables, have either been made by 

 Mr. Thompson, or approved of by him. 



The Author has also had the assistance of various other prac- 

 tical gardeners, including Mr. Henry Charles Ogle, who pre- 

 pared the Calendarial and General Index, and Mr. Lymburn, who 

 furnished most of the Notes in the APPENDIX. The important 

 note in p. 706, on the subject of charcoal, and the use of rough, 

 rooty, turfy soil, and small stones in potting plants, is extracted 

 from an article on this subject in The Gardeners Magazine for 

 November 1842, by Mr. James Barnes, gardener to the Right 

 Hon. Lady Rolle, at Bicton, near Exeter. 



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