This Day is Published, the Second Edition, conqdete, in One large Volumc,8vo. of 1234 pages, 

 closely printed, with Seven Hundred and Fifty-seven Engravings on Wood, Price 2. 



BY 

 MESSRS. LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, BROWN, & GREEN, 



AN 



ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GARDENING; 



COMPRISING 



"Cfie 'Cfieorp ana practice 



OF 



HORTICULTURE, FLORICULTURE, ARBORICULTURE, 



AND 



LANDSCAPE GARDENING, 



INCLUDING 



ALL THE LATEST IMPROVEMENTS; 

 A GENERAL HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ALL COUNTRIES; 



AND 



a Statistical flieto of it0 present State, 



WITH 



SUGGESTIONS FOR ITS FUTURE PROGRESS, IN THE BRITISH ISLES. 



By J. C. LOUDON, F.L.S. H.S., &c. 



1 HIS Work is by far the most complete body of Gardening ever published, con- 

 taining all Improvements both foreign and domestic up to the present time ; and, con- 

 sidering its numerous engravings (757), valuable tables of fruits, flowers, &c., and 

 copious letter press, it is, perhaps, the cheapest book ever published. It is calculated, 

 by its indexes, to serve both as a Gardener's Kalendar, and Gardener's Dictionary : 

 it contains a copious Introduction to Botany ; engraved plans and elevations of all man- 

 ner of hot-houses, ornamental buildings, kitchen gardens, flower gardens, shrubberies, 

 pleasure grounds, and parks both of this and other countries ; of many curious fruits and 

 flowers; of all the garden implements, utensils, and machines; and of all the insects 

 which annoy gardens. Besides the culinary, fruit, and flower gardening, and the lay- 

 ing out of grounds, it treats of trees, shrubs, planting, forest management, nurseries, 

 market gardens, and botanic gardens ; of gardeners' societies, and lodges ; of the duties 

 of head gardeners in every situation and rank of servitude, from that of the tradesman's 

 town garden, of a few poles in extent, to the first-rate gardens of the nobility, including 

 public and royal gardens : it treats of the improvement of the taste of the patrons and 

 employers of gardeners ; of the education of young gardeners, and the general conduct 

 of a gardener's life ; and contains the only catalogue ever given of all the books on gar- 

 dening that have been printed in this or in other countries : in short, it is of itself a gar- 

 dener's library, comprising a condensed view of all that has been written on the subject 

 of gardening, and the first attempt at a history of the art in all ages and countries that 

 has ever been published. 



To beginners of every description, the work is invaluable ; and few are the practical 

 men that may not receive from it a great accession of knowledge. As a reward for good 

 conduct, or a stimulus to improvement, no book is so well fitted for being presented by a 

 gentleman to his head gardener, or by a head gardener to his deserving apprentice. One 

 of our first horticulturists (we might say our very first) has declared, that the work has 

 met his " unqualified approbation ;" and another has observed that " a copy of it 

 ought to be in every gardener's shed in the kingdom." 



