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COMMENDATORY NOTICES OF THE FLORIST'S GUIDE, 



THK FLORIST'S GUIDE. A delightful little book, which we advise 

 every body to purchase at least every body that has the least liking for 

 the pleasing occupation on which it treats. Courier & Enquirer. 



Mr. Bridgeman, of this city, has published a neat little work, entitled 

 'The Florist's Guide,' containing directions for the cultivation of flow- 

 ers. It is a pleasant and instructive little book. Times. 



" The Florist's Guide," like its companion, " The Young Gardener*! 

 Assistant,' 1 is a useful work, which every Gardener and Florist may 

 consult to advantage. It gives minute directions concerning plants of 

 various species; the names and characters of each being alphabetically 

 arranged, makes it an invaluable manual for those who may wish to 

 superintend the management of their own gardens." Newark D. Adv. 



" The style is free, and the language appropriate ; the plan is judicious, 

 and the contents embrace much well arranged practical information, 

 unencumbered with disquisitions foreign to the object of the work. 

 We very cheerfully recommend it to our readers as a cheap and useful 

 book.' 5 Gardener's Magazine. 



THE FLORIST'S GUIDE is the title of a duedecimo volume, of 140 

 pages, just issued from the press in this city. It is the production of 

 Mr. T. Bridgeman, Gardener, Seedsman, and Florist, and contains 

 directions for the cultivation of Annual, Biennial, and Perennial 

 Flowering Plants, of different classes. A work of this description can- 

 not but prove valuable to Horticulturists, particularly to those Ladies 

 who are fond of that healthful employment of cultivating their own 

 flower-beds. Gazette. 



We observe that Mr. T. Bridgeman, the ingenious author of ' The 

 Young Gardener's Assistant,' has put to press another work, entitled 

 ' The Florist's Guide,' containing directions [for cultivating flowering 

 plants and greenhouse plants of every description. It is very neatly 

 printed, and although extending to 130 pages, is offered at the low. 

 price of 37 i cents per copy. Old Countryman. 



7/jP I have selected the foregoing notices from a long list of equally 

 flattering testimonials relative to the merits of these work?* This'curtail. 

 ment was rendered necessary by the very valuable additional informa- 

 tion incoi porated in the present volumes, which will be found much more 

 complete than any of their predecessors. According to my humble opinion, 

 Shis will add to the well-earned celebrity of their Author, and place his re- 

 putation on a permanent basis, as a sound, judicious, and able writer on* 

 u the delightful Art of Gardening " THE PRINTER* 



