GUIDE 



TO THE 

 ORCHARD A EJ D FRUIT G A tt B E ST. 



PART II. 



PROPAGATION AND CULTIVATION OF FRUITS, 



ADAPTED TO THE AMERICAN CLIMATE. 



PRINCIPLES OK HORTICULTURAL OPERATIONS, BY JOHNLINDLEY, 

 F. R. S. &c. &c., ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



INTRODUCTION. 



IN all books upon Gardening, a great variety of modes of 

 operating are comprehended, each of which has, it may be 

 supposed, its own peculiar merit under particular circum- 

 stances. In several the very same mode is repeatedly re- 

 commended, with slight variations of phraseology, in speak- 

 ing of many different subjects ; and it has at last become *a 

 common complaint, among those who seek for information 

 from books upon horticultural subjects, that they can find 

 plenty of rules of action, but very few reasons. 



No greater boon could be bestowed upon the gardening 

 world than to reduce all horticultural operations to their first 

 principles, and to lay bare the naked causes why in one case 

 one mode of procedure is advisable, and another in another. 

 But there are few persons who are competent to undertake 

 this task ; it requires a combination of great physiological 

 knowledge, with a perfect acquaintance with the common 



