PREFACE. 



THIS volume is but a collection of Notes, which, 

 at the request of the editor, I wrote, month by 

 month, in 1874, for the columns of the Gardeners' 

 Chronicle. 



They pretend to little technical knowledge, 

 and are, I fear, of but little horticultural value. 

 They contain only some slight record of a year's 

 work in a garden, and of those associations 

 which a garden is so certain to call up. 



As, however, I found that this monthly record 

 gave pleasure to readers, to whom both the 

 garden and its owner were quite unknown, I 

 printed off some fifty copies to give to those, 

 whom I have the happiness to number among 

 my friends, and for whom a garden has the same 

 interest that it has for me. 



Four years have passed since then, and I am 

 still asked for copies which I cannot give. 



