NEW WORK ON GARDENING. 



In 1 vol. (pp. 764), illustrated by 383 Engravings, price 16s. 

 mHE SUBURBAN HORTICULTURIST; adapted for the Use of 



JL those interested in the Formation and Management of either Large or Small 

 Gardens, By J. C. LOUDON, F.L.S. &c. Conductor of The Gardener's Magazine, 

 Author of The "Encyclopedias of Gardening, Plants, Agriculture, Trees and Shrubs, 

 Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture, The Arboretum Britannicum, 8fc. 8fc. 



No pains have been spared towards rendering this work as complete as possible. It 

 contains full instructions for the formation of gardens and their management, according 

 to the most approved modes of practice. Extensive information will be found respecting 

 the nature of soils and their improvement ; the different kinds of manures and their 

 application ; the operations of Planting, Sowing, Budding, Grafting, and the various 

 other modes of Propagation ; Pruning and Training of Standard, Dwarf, Espalier, and 

 Wall Trees. The formation of borders for Fruit Trees, the construction of Forcing 

 Houses, P' ts,and other structures for forcing and protection, and the various modes 

 of Heating by Hot Water and otherwise, are treated of in full detail, as are likewise the 

 Cropping anu Particular Management of the Kitchen Garden, Forcing of the Pine Apple, 

 Vine, Peach, Fig, Cucumber, and Melon. Lists and descriptions of the best varieties of 

 Vegetables and Fruits are also included. Those who have a considerable knowledge ot 

 Gardening will find in this work much information to which they n\ay advantageously 

 refer ; whilst it will enable such as are inexperienced to proceed with every probability ot 

 success. 



From the following quotations, the work will appear to be particularly adapted * 

 clergymen, and retired citizens or amateurs, who wish to be their own gardeners, and for 

 emigrants. 



" Mr. Loudon has made a most successful attempt to teach the science tif gardening to the un- 

 initiated ; the instructions given respecting the various branches being so clear and intelligible as 

 to be readily understood even by those totally ignorant of the subjects of which they treat ; and, 

 in addition to this, everything is illustrated by woodcuts admirably adapted to convey their exact 

 meaning, particularly the operations of pruning, training, and propagation, which are exceedingly 

 valuable parts of the work, and well worthy the attention of the most experienced. The volume 

 before us will be found most invaluable to young gardeners, and those who know little of the science 

 of gardening, and areeither desironsof cultivating their gardens personally for health and recreation, 

 or of directing their management upon the most approved principles, with a labourer only. For 

 accomplishing either of these ends the practical directions are most ample and complete." 



PAXTON'S MAGAZINE OF BOTANY, March 1843, p. 46. 



" The novice in gardening will here find ample instructions in the various branches of labour, 

 such as digging, trenching, mowing, &c. as well as for the propagation of plants by budding, 

 grafting, inarching, and other methods. A considerable space is j ustly occupied with directions for 

 planting, an operation too often considered of minor importance, but which, as daily experience 

 proves, cannot be too carefully performed. Those sections of the work which relate to pruning 

 and training are well worthy the perusal of even the practical gardener ; were the rules therein 

 inculcated, as well as those relative to the proper formation of borders, more strictly attended to, 

 we should not have to lament the barren and unsightly state of fruit trees, which is so frequently 

 observable." DR. LINDLEY, in GARDENERS' CHRONICLE, Nov. 1842. 



Published by William Smith, 113, Fleet Street. 



