PREFACE. 



grateful acknowledgments to thofe Gentlemen, 

 and gardeners in particular, who have favoured 

 us with hints for its improvement; they will 

 fee that v/e have availed ourfelves, as much as 

 pofiible, of their obfcrvations and inftruclions. 

 And as fyftems like ours can never be abfo- 

 lutely complete, ov/ing to the many new dif- 

 coveries which are daily making in the diffe- 

 rent parts of Europe, we earneflly hope that 

 thofe perfons who are engaged in the cultiva- 

 tion of gardens, will continue to oblige us 

 with fuch difcoveries as may occur in the pro- 

 grefs of their employment, which we Ihall 

 mofl thankfully receive, and gratefully acknow- 

 ledge. In the mean time they, and the Public 

 in general, will readily difcover, that, Gnce the 

 firlt publication of this book, fifteen years ago, 

 the Authors have made very confiderable im- 

 provem>eniS in every edition thereof; and, as 

 in the farther progrefs of their practical expe- 

 rience, very many capital difcoveries and im- 

 provements having occurred, which now, in 

 this ninth edition, they have introduced in a 

 very copious and general manner in every de- 

 partment of the V7ork, v/hereby it is confide- 

 rahrly enlarged, comprehenfivcly improved, and 

 and rendered much more univerJaliy inftrudive 

 than any former edition. 



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