Preltmtnarg to tfje jFirgt Litton* 



MESSRS. LEVEY AND Co. think the readers of the fol- 

 lowing pages will need no further explanation from 

 them after perusing the annexed letters. The one 

 signed "The Squire's Son" reached them when the 

 work was at press, and just in time to save them the 

 necessity of giving an introductory notice of their own. 



Messrs. Levey, fiobson, and Franklyn. 



GENTLEMEN, 



Some years ago, my late honoured 

 Master took me to London with him, that I might see 

 the great show at Chiswick ; and there I got amongst 

 a many gardeners, and some of the young ones made 

 very merry at my old-fashioned ways ; and when I 

 talked about getting ahead of the world, they said I'd 

 lived in the good old times ; I couldn't do so now, if 

 Fd my time to go over again. So, when I got home, 

 I set to work, and put a few things down out of my 

 books, and meant to send 'em to the gardening pa- 

 pers, the Chronicle or the Journal, just to tell what 

 I've seen and done in my day ; but just then they 



