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tural Societies, and all other Improvements both foreign and 

 domestic up to the present time; and, considering the great 

 number of Engravings and the immense quantity of matter it con- 

 tains, it is, perhaps, the cheapest book ever published. It is cal- 

 culated by its Indexes to serve both as a Gardener's Kalendar and 

 Gardener's Dictionary ; it contains a copious Introduction to Botany; 

 engraved plans and elevations of all manner of hot-houses, orna- 

 mental buildings, kitchen gardens, flower gardens, shrubberies, 

 pleasure grounds, and parks ; of many curious fruits and flowers ; 

 of all the garden implements, utensils, and machines. Besides the 

 culinary, fruit, and flower gardening, and the laying out of grounds, 

 it treats of trees, planting, forest management, nurseries, market 

 gardens, and botanic gardens ; of gardeners' societies, and lodges ; 

 of the duties of head gardeners in every situation and servitude, 

 from that of the tradesman's town garden, of a few poles in extent, 

 to the first rate gardens of the nobility, including public and royal 

 gardens ; it treats of the improvement of the taste of the patrons 

 and employers of gardeners ; of the education of young gardeners, 

 and the general conduct of a gardener's life : in short it is of itself 

 a gardener's library, and contains more matter than the four folio 

 volumes of Miller's Dictionary. 



No work is so well fitted for being presented by a gentleman to 

 his head gardener, or by a head gardener to his deserving 

 apprentice. 



Preparing for Publication, 



AN 



ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF AGRICULTURE, 



In One large Volume, 8vo. 



ILLUSTRATED WITH 



NUMEROUS WOOD ENGRAVINGS 



BY BRANSTON. 



*** This Work is on the Plan of the Encyclopaedia of 

 Gardening. 



