THE 



YOUNG 

 GARDENER'S ASSISTANT; 



CONTAI.VIXG A CATALOGUE OF 



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PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS UNDER EACH HEAD, 



FOR THE CULTIVATION OF 



CULINARY VEGETABLES AND FLOWERS, 



ALSO DIRECTIONS FOR 



CULTIVATING FRUIT TREES, THE GRAPE VINE, &c.; 



TO WHICH IS ADDED, 



Showing the Work necessary to be done in the various departments 

 of Gardening in every month of the year. 



EIGHTH EDITION, IMPROVED. 



BY T. BRIDGEMAN, 



GARDENER, SEEDSMAN, AND FLORIST, NEW-YORK. 





'The end of all instruction should be the attainment of useful knowledge. 



NEW- YORK: 



For rale by T. Bridgeman, corner 18lh st. and Broadway, immediately nerth of Union 

 Place Park ; G. C. Thorburn, No 11 John street ; Alexander Smith, 388 Broadway, 

 N. Y. ; G. R. Garretson, Flushing. L I ; Win. Thorburn, Albany; Reynolds and 

 Bateham. Rochester ; Hovey & Co., Ellis & Bosson, Joseph Breck k Co., Boston ; 

 Hirst St breer, D. Landreth & Co., Philadelphia; J. Cairns, Newark. N. J. ; R. 

 Sinclair, Jr. & Co., Baltimore ; J. F. Callau, Washington City; Turner &. Hughes, 

 Raleigh, N. C. ; J. Houghton, Cleveland ; J. C. Porkburst, Cincinnati ; T. Pringle 

 and Co., New-Orleans and Natchez ; John Tnorburn, St. Louis, Missouri ; and 

 other Seedsmen and Florists in various parrs of the United States \ also, by Book- 

 sellers in geueral. 



1840. 



