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TO THE THIRD EDITION. 



The Author cannot permit a new edition of his Treatise on the 

 Vine to appear, without expressing the great pleasure he derives, 

 in witnessing the rapid progress that the principles of Vine cul- 

 ture, promulgated in its columns, have made, since they were firs-t 

 brought under the notice of the public. Two large editions have 

 been sold, and the demand is daily increasing. The Author, 

 therefore, flatters himself, that he may now, without being guilty 

 of presumption, consider his Treatise as the standard work of 

 reference in that branch of horticulture of which it treats ; more 

 particularly so, since the major part of the writers in horticultural 

 periodicals, and other works, which from time to time profess to 

 give directions for the management of Vines, are in the constant 

 practice of quoting from his Treatise, (but in general without ac- 

 knowledgment,) the directions therein contained, and the princi- 

 ples upon which they are founded. 



Shirley Vineyard, near Sonthampion, 

 July 1, 1841. 



