APPENDIX. 



Though the newly-invented method exhi- 

 bited in this book, has been but a Hiort time pub- 

 lifhed, I have the pleafure to behold, and know it 

 to be put in pradiice and approved of by gardeners 

 of much longer practice, and in fome refpedls of 

 greater abilities, than myfelf. Nor have I heard 

 the invention fpoken againft by any perfon what- 

 ever. Indeed I have had from different parts of 

 the country, the private congratulations of feveral 

 ftrangers, for, as they term it, '' my ingenious 

 invention." And for a public recommendation of 

 the work, I can with fatisfadion refer the reader 

 and the curious to the Critical Review of Janu- 

 ary, the Monthly Reviev/ of February, the Bri- 

 tish Critic of July, and the Analytical 

 Review of December. 



Two years are now elapfed fince I finiflied wri- 

 ting this volume ; and after that length of time, of 

 additional experience, and- a review of the work, 

 I can fee no reafon for making any alteration or 

 addition to the method therein held forth, one 

 thing only excepted, viz. A gentleman near Lon- 

 don, in the autumn of 1794, having built a bed 

 after my plan, his gardener putting it into pradlice, 

 loft his plants feveral times in the courfe of the 

 following fevere winter. 



Having 



