172 COMMENDATORY NOTICES. 



"Bridgeman's Gardener's Assistant. — The fourth edition of this 

 useful httle manual is published, and is rendered of increased value by the 

 addition of several matters not contained in either of the former editions. 

 Among these is a short and convenient calendar to assist the gardener's 

 memory." — Evening Post. 



"No work on the subject of Kitchen Gardening ever published in this 

 country has met with so very general approbation and extensive sale. Mr. 

 Bridgeman is well known as one of our best gardeners, and writes from hig 

 own experience." — Daily Express. 



" That work vdiich teaches us how to create and to improve this most 

 innocent and useful source of pleasure, is surely worthy of applause and 

 patronage ; and such we consider 'The Young Gardener's Assistant.'" — 

 Mjrning Herald. 



" The work is calculated to be of immense service to those engaged in 

 Agriculture, *far from the busy haunts of men,' and to the disciples of 

 Flora, in the city. Mr. Bridgeman is a practical gardener and seedsman, 

 and has lived many years on both sides of the Atlantic." — Old Countryman. 



"From what we gather from the tenor of Mr. Bridgeman's book, we 

 should suppose that he paid but little attention to the mere on dits or dic' 

 turns of any, but that he pursued that course which his judgment pointed 

 out ; and in this particular, we value his book — leading the young gardener 

 to depend more on his own judgment than on the rules of custom." 

 American Farmer. 



"All those who are desirous of a work on the subject of Gardening, and 

 one which will convey the best information on the management of Hot- 

 beds, Asparagus beds, best mode of raising all sorts of Esculent Vegetables, 

 Pruning, Grafting and Budding Fruit Trees, Training the Vine, Preserving 

 the Fruit from Mildew, &c., should procure this. No work on the subject 

 ever published in this country has met with half as extensive a sale, or 

 decided public approbation, as this valuable compendium. Mr. Bridgeman 

 fully understands tiie subject on which he treats. The very rapid sale of 

 the eight former editions is quite a sufficient recommendation." — G. C. 

 Thorhurn, in the Evening Star. 



" We can assure gardeners and farmers that they will in times and ways 

 almost without number, be amply compensated by purchasing the book. 

 Mr. Bridgeman bestows great labour on his productions of the pen, not 

 only as to practical matter of fact, but to the various excellences of style 

 particularly to clearness, and the avoiding a redundancy of words. The 

 amount of useful information in the book constitutes its value; and all this 

 information is adapted to this country, and its climate and its soil."— 

 American Gardener^ s Magazine. 



" From the cursory examination we have been enabled to give ' The 

 Young Gardener's Assistant,' we should judge that it embraces a greater 

 amount of practical information, applicable to our climate, than can be 

 found in any similar work. The list of fruit trees has been selected from 

 the best authorities, both foreign and American, and is sufficiently exten- 

 sive for any cultivator in this country." — Newark Daily Advertiser 



