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committee for awarding premiums, and thought your work 

 was deserving encouragement, and, that even in this small 

 way, we might be of service in bringing it before the public 



as WORTHY OF BEING GIVEN AS PREMIUMS. 



" Yours, very respectfully, 



*' ALEXANDER WALSH. 

 "Lansingburgh, November, 1835. 



Extract from a review of this work in the Magazine of 

 Horticulture, Botany, fyc. published by HoveyfyCo. Boston: 



" The work is written in plain language, easily to be 

 understood by the young beginner in gardening, who will 

 find it a great help ; and its value, even to the partly expe- 

 rienced person, is by na means of an ordinary character. 

 IT is ADAPTED TO OUR CLIMATE, anduiilike compilations from 

 English works, the novice is not led into disappointment 

 by following the rules there laid down, as he generally is, 

 when following the advice of the latter. We repeat, that 

 as far as the book pretends, IT is WORTH ALL OTHERS OF A 



SIMILAR CHARACTER THAT HAVE EVER BEEN PUBLISHED IN 



THIS COUNTRY ; and its cheapness should place it in the 

 hands of all new beginners. " 



It appears from an article in the New- York Farmer and 

 Horticultural Repository, that the first edition of the work 

 was noticed in France. The Editor informs us, in page 

 295 of the fourth volume, " That one of the leading articles 

 in the second number of the present volume of the Annales 

 de L? Institute, Royal Horticole de Fromont, is a long notice 

 of the Young Gardener's Assistant, by Mr. T. Bridgeman 

 of this city. The editor, Le Chevalier Soulange Bodin, 

 speaks of the little work in very commendable terms." 



Numerous other proofs could be adduced of the kind 

 reception the work has met. Suffice it to state, that it has 

 been extensively noticed, and recommended to public pa- 

 tronage, by editors of literary periodicals, and in many of 

 those publications devoted to agricultural and horticultural 

 pursuits, in various parts of this and other countries. 



As the simplicity of cultivating the soil may lead many 

 to think, that a wayfaring man though a fool, could not. 



