PREFACE TO THE EIGHTH EDITION. 



THE primary object in first publishing The Young 

 Gardeners Assistant, was to enable our respectable seeds- 

 men, while furnishing a catalogue of seeds for the use of 

 the Kitchen and Flower Garden, to afford instructions, a 1 

 a trifling expense, to such of their customers as may not 

 have a regular gardener, and thereby save themselves the 

 blame of those who may not have given their seeds a fair 

 trial, for want of knowing how to dispose of them in the 

 ground. 



In appearing before the public with this eighth edition of 

 the work, the Author cannot forbear to express his sense of 

 obligation to his patrons in general, and to his fellow-seeds- 

 men of New- York in particular, each of whom having by 

 the interest they have taken in circulating the book, evinced 

 their approbation of this humble attempt to serve both the 

 seedsman and the gardener, in supplying directions for the 

 management of a garden, in a manner calculated to insure 

 success. 



Within the last ten years, upwards often thousand copie 5 

 of previous editions have been issued from the seed store of 

 Mr. G. C. THORBURN, who has liberally subscribed for fifteen 

 hundred copies of this edition. The Boston and Philadel- 

 phia seedsmen have also contributed largely to its circulation ; 

 and the Author has been gratified by learning that his 

 labours are appreciated by eminent horticulturists, as the 

 following extracts will demonstrate : 



4t DEAR SIR, You wifl see by the next month's New 

 Yurk Farmer, if you have not already seen by the Albany 

 papers, that several copies of your Young Gardener's 

 Assistant were given as PREMIUMS by the State Agricultural 

 Society. Mr. D. B. Slingerland and myself were on the 



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