PREFACE 



The primary object in first publishing The Young 

 Gardener's Assistant, was to enable our respectable 

 seedsmen, while furnishing a catalogue of seed for the 

 use of the Kitchen and Flower Garden, to aftbrd instruc- 

 tion, at a trifling expense, to such of their customers as 

 had not a regular gardener, and thereby save themselves 

 the blame, of those who may not have given their seed 

 a fair trial for want of knowing how to dispose of it in 

 the ground. 



The Author, having shown his primary object in 

 adopting the catalogue form, presumes that his readers 

 will not be disappointed if they do not find there the 

 names of all the species or varieties of plants they may 

 wish to introduce into their gardens, the mode of culture 

 of such being generally alike. If a catalogue of this 

 kind was essential, it would occupy more space than is^ 

 allotted to this book ; besides, it would be impossible to 

 keep pace with our enterprising horticulturists and 

 florists, who are continually introducing new species into 



