PREFACE. 



In the Second Volume of the American Gardener's Magazine, 

 an additional quantity of information will be found, for which we 

 refer the reader to the table of contents. For this we are indebted 

 to the continued kindness of our correspondents : our own experi- 

 eYice as conductors has also enabled us to add more interest to 

 the work. 



In this Volume, agreeably to our intentions as stated at the close 

 of the first, we have commenced giving plans of green-houses of 

 various sizes: two have already appeared, from which designs, we 

 have the gratification to learn, one or two have already been built, 

 and others contemplated for erection the ensuing season. Other 

 plans will be forthcoming in the next and succeeding Volumes, 

 which will finally embrace the most beautiful structures in this 

 vicinity. We have it also in our power to say, that, if we are ena- 

 bled, by an increasing circulation, ground plans of some of the best 

 arranged gardens will also appear in the third Volume. The 

 method of heating by hot water, as detailed in connexion with the 

 plans of the green-houses, and the method invented by Mr. Hogg, 

 in this Volume, will be a sufficient guide to those who are erect- 

 ing stoves or green-houses, in fitting up such apparatuses. 



Of the various papers in the second Volume, which we may 

 lecommend as particularly interesting, are those on the cultivation 

 -of Strawberries, on the employment of Vases in garden scenery, 

 on the cultivation of some of the Cacti, on the pink and car- 

 nation, and the remarks on the genus O'xalis. Our own articles on 

 the forcing of the Cucumber, on growing Peaches in pots, the 

 Calendar of plants, and the remarks on the Pseony, will, we hope, 

 be of some value to the practical as well as the amateur gardener. 

 The paper on the classification and arrangement of Peas, with 

 their numerous synonymes, taken from a foreign work, is of great 

 value. 



