PART THIRD. 



FLOWERS, 



WHICH may not be overlooked seeing that every 

 garden will have them ; but as rules of utility 

 are demonstrable, whilst those of taste are merely 

 arbitrary, there is less to do with this than with 

 either of the preceding departments. And as all 

 agree in having flowers, but differ most widely as 

 to the extent to which the fancy ought to be carried, 

 the following method is adopted in accommodation 

 to these circumstances: First, to make some gen- 

 eral observations, by attending to which every one 

 may cultivate flowers to what extent he pleases ; 

 and then to give a small list of some of the prin- 

 cipal ornaments of the garden, set down in alpha- 

 betical order, with particular directions for each. 

 Such method, it is apprehended, will suit the taste 

 and convenience of most persons for which this lit- 

 tle Work is designed. To none, perhaps, save the 

 idle, the curious in botany, who plant to gain a 

 science, or the apprenticed, who must know their 

 calling, can the enormous list of plants and flowers, 



