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COMMENDATORY NOTICES 



Extract of a review of this work in the Magazine of Horticulture,,. 



Botany, &c. published by Hovey & Co. 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 ita 

 value, even to the partly experienced person, is by no means of an ordi- 

 nary character. IT is ADAPTKD TO OUR CLIMATE, and unlike compila- 

 tions from English works, the novice is not led into disappointment by 

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

 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.'' 



Extract of a letter from Lansingburgh : 



" Dear Sir, You will see by the next month's New York Farmer> if 

 you have not already seen by the Albany papersi that several copies of 

 your 'Young Gardener's Assistant' have .been given as premiums, by 

 the State Agricultural Society. Mr. D. B. Slingerland and myself 

 were on thfl 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. "ALEXANDER WALSH." 



"The first edition of 'The Young Gardener's Assistant' has been 

 favourably noticed in France : " One of the leading articles of the 

 Annales de V Institute Royal Horticole de. Fromont, is a long notice of 

 'The Young Gardener's Assistant,' by Mr. Thomas Bridgeman, of this 

 city. The editor, Le Chevalier Soulauge Boclin, speaks of the little 

 work in very commendable terms." New-York Farmer. 



"Among the plants, for the cultivation of which 'The Young Gar 

 dener's Assistant contains directions, are a number of culinary vegeta- 

 bles not generally introduced into the United States. The introduction 

 and successful cultivation of useful foreign vegetables add to the resour- 

 ces of our country. We recently saw, for instance, in Bridgeman'9 

 garden, several varieties of Broad Beans, Viciafaba, in a most vigorous 

 and thrifty growth. They occupied a clayey spot of ground that was 

 not suitable so early in the season for any other vegetable. They put 

 forth a beautiful blossom, and would serve as an ornament for the 

 flower garden. New-York Farmer. 



" From the systematic arrangement of the parts, under appropriate 

 heads, and the plain and practical nature of the instructions, it must be 

 an invaluable manual for those who may wish to superintend the 

 management of their own gardens. Albany Argus. 



" It will we are persuaded be found, what the writer intends it shall 

 be, ' generally useful to such as may wish to superintend, or take the 

 management of their own gardens.' Mr. Bridgeman is a gardener 

 himself, in the Bowery road, and his directions are therefore applicable 

 to our climate an advantage of no little moment." American. 



