399 

 QUANTITY OF GRASS SEED SUITABLE TO THE ACRE. 



Clover, sown alone 12 pounds I Orchard Grass 2 bushels 



Timothy 1 peck. ] Rye Grass. 2 bushels* 



Herds Grass 1 bushel. | Lucerne 8 pounds. 



For a pasture for grazing, the following mixtures of seed would be 

 found excellent, viz : 6 pounds of clover seed, 1 peck of herds grass* 

 and half a bushel of Orchard grass seed or 6 pounds clover, half a 

 bushel of rye grass, and half a bushel of tall meadow oat seeds. 



RETROSPECTIVE VIEW OF THIS EDITION OF THE 

 YOUNG GARDENER'S ASSISTANT. 



While making the preceding index, I availed myself of the opportunity 

 afforded me of surveying the fruits of my labour ; and, although I have 

 to crave the reader's indulgence for several errors of the press and slips 

 of the pen, which appear unavoidable in a work of this kind, I think I 

 may assert, without exposing myself to the charge of arrogance or 

 egotism, that this edition very far excels those before published, not only 

 as to the a Mitional amount of information it contains, butfrom the im- 

 proved method in which the instructions are exhibited to the reader, 

 who will, I am persuaded discover on an attentive perusal of the work, 

 that he has the various subjects laid before him in a concise, and at the 

 tame time an explicit manner. Several new and interesting article* 

 have been composed expressly for this edition, on various subjects, 

 some of which it is presumed, have never before been discussed for 

 publication. The reader is referred to pages, 19, 23, 134, 146, 166, 220, 

 311, 319 and 337; also introduction to the calendar and index. 



T. BRIDGEMAtf, 



New-York, March, 1840. 





