iv PREFACE. 



ness to be performed in every month. By this means the subject 

 becomes a daily amusement and study, applicable at the moment, 

 and consequently leaving a lasting impression on the memory ; 

 which if attended to for a few years, may make any person who 

 has a taste for admiring and enjoying the magnificence, beauties 

 and bounties of nature, in its vegetable productions, a complete 

 Master of the Art, and if he pleases, his own Gardener. 



In writing this treatise, I have had recourse to the best publica- 

 tions, American, English, French and Latin, lest any useful sug- 

 gestions, or modern improvements in the art, shoulde scape my no- 

 tice or recollection ; still keeping in view, not only the difference of 

 climate, season, and the necessary modes of culture in foreign coun- 

 tries, but also, in the extensive region of which the United States 

 are composed. It is, however, probable, notwithstanding all my 

 assiduity and care, in collecting as much information as possi- 

 ble, with respect to the most firofier seasons for sowing particular 

 kinds of seeds, &c. in the remote parts of the Union, that I have 

 fallen into some mistakes ; for these, as well as typographical er- 

 rors, to which a work of this kind is unavoidably subject, I solicit 

 the reader's excuse ; and shall consider myself under serious obli- 

 gations to those, whose personal friendship, or patriotism, shall in- 

 duce them to inform me of any horticultural errors which I may 

 have committed, or improvements that may be made ; in order 

 that the former be corrected, and the latter, if justified by experi- 

 ence, published in some future work, or edition of this. 



The culture and management of Grape-Vines, and all other 

 kinds of fruit-trees, which can be cultivated with us Jo advantage, 

 or even to indulge curiosity ; the raising and planting of Thorn- 

 quicks and other plants suitable for LIVE-HEDGES, the cultivation 

 of Liquorice, Rhubarb, Dyer's Madder, Weld or Dyer's Weed, 

 Fuller's Teasel, Sea Kale (Crambe maritima). Cork-tree, Manna 

 Ash, Tanner's Sumack (Rhus CoriariaJ, Paper Mulberry, Mul- 

 berry-trees for feeding Silk-worms (and care of the insects,) with 

 every other plant, not already common, which appeared to me of 

 sufficient importance, either in a commercial, manufacturing, or 

 ornamental point of view, or as affording any of the luxuries or ne- 

 cessaries of life, have been treated of with due attention : and in 

 order to accommodate the Agriculturist, I have given a classical ca- 

 talogue of the most important and valuable grasses, and other plants, 

 used in rural economy ; and likewise pointed out the particular 

 kind of soil, in which, each plant cultivated as a grass, or exclusive- 

 ly on account of its foliage, has been found, upon repeated trials, to 

 succeed best. 



