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perhaps it will appear but a small countervail to 

 this statement to add, that most of the information 

 applicable to general planting is contained in them, 

 as well as that which relates to both horticulture 

 and agriculture. 



In this condition of the treatise, I submit it, 

 imperfect as it is, to the candour of the reader ; 

 who, if he be a phytologist of research, or, still 

 more, a planter of experience, will appreciate the 

 difficulties which attend a new subject, and make 

 some allowance for the execution under such cir- 

 cumstances. 



In respect to the practical part, I must own, 

 that, in treating it, I should have been disposed 

 to enter much less minutely into detail, had I 

 merely consulted my own judgment. But as those 

 friends most anxious for the book, cried out most 

 loudly for detail^ and insisted that it was impossible 

 to make it too copious^ I have, for the purpose of 

 gratifying them, introduced under this head so mi- 

 nute a statement of my own practice, that it may 

 probably be considered as more suitable to private 

 communication, or perhaps to oral discussion. 



Presumptuous enough as I must appear to tlie 

 EngUsh planters, in venturing to believe, that I 



