v ; PREFACE. 



affording him that correct, judicious and suitable instruction, 

 the happy result of which would give impulse to his perse- 

 verance. 



To obviate this necessity, as much as is in my power, and to 

 contribute my mite to the welfare of my fellow citizens, and 

 to the general improvement of the country, I have undertaken 

 this work, and arranged the matter according to the seasons of 

 the year, that the reader may have an easy reference to the 

 particular business to be performed in every month. By this 

 means the subject becomes a daily amusement and study, 

 applicable at the moment, and consequently leaving a lasting 

 impression on the memory; which, if attended to for a few 

 years, may make any person who has a taste for admiring and 

 enjoying the magnificence, beauties and bounties of Nature in 

 its vegetable productions, a complete Master of the Art, and if 

 he pleases, his own Gardener. 



In writing this treatise, I have had recourse to the best pub- 

 lications, American, English, French and Latin, lest any useful 

 suggestions or modern improvements in the art should escape 

 my notice or recollection; still keeping in view, not only the 

 difference of climate, season, and the necessary modes of cul- 

 ture in foreign countries, but also in the extensive region of 

 which the United States are composed. It is, however, prob- 

 able, notwithstanding all my assiduity and care in collecting 

 as much information as possible with respect to the most proper 

 seasons for sowing particular kinds of seeds, &c. in the remote 

 parts of the Union, that I have fallen into some mistakes; for 

 these, as well as typographical errors, to which a work of this 

 kind is unavoidably subject, I solicit the reader's excuse; and 

 shall consider myself under serious obligations to those whose 

 personal friendship or patriotism shall induce them to inform 

 me of any horticultural errors which I may have committed 

 or improvements that may be made. In order thai the former 

 be corrected, and the latter, if justified by experience, published 

 in some future work, or edition of this. 



The culture and management of Grape-Vines, and all other 

 kinds of fruit trees which can be cultivated with US to advan- 

 tage, or even to indulge curiosity; the raising and planting of 

 Thorn Quicks and other plants suitable for Live Hedges; the 



