PREFACE TO THE ELEVENTH EDITION. 



M'MAHON'S GAEDENING is by far the most comprehensive, 

 complete, and best work that has been written for America. 

 The advantages of minute detail will be found to consist in 

 teaching how to perform many important operations, which those 

 having gardens should understand the rationale of, whether they 

 practise them all or not. Improved machinery and apparatus 

 have not superseded knowledge, and there are thousands of small 

 gardens where many of these detailed operations may still be 

 practised with economy and advantage. 



The work has undergone great improvements in this edition, 

 having been carefully read by one of our best practical gardeners, 

 and in important particulars brought up to the knowledge of the 

 day. The newer vegetables are carefully noted, and a very few 

 passages that are not now relevant have been expunged, such as 

 the long description of the mode of cultivation of madder, and 

 substances that time has exploded in American gardens. 



Wood-cuts have been inserted to add interest to the work, and 

 altogether the publishers present the volume with confidence to 

 the amateur and the practical gardener, as one which will bear 

 careful study. They have also procured a brief memoir of the 

 author, that so valuable a man's name " may not perish from 

 among the people." 



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