CORDON TRAINING. 



CHAPTER I. 



INTRODUCTORY. 



MOST books, whatever their size or subject, are 

 better understood for some sort of prefatory re- 

 marks, and in an age and country in which 

 horticulture meets with such high patronage, it 

 may seem presumptuous for an amateur to treat 

 of such a subject; it may appear uncalled 

 for; and may even require explanation of his 

 motives. 



This feeling is not altogether without its uses, 

 and the author hastens to say, that this short 

 work is the result of much leisure time, which 

 an enforced idleness, the result of over-fatigue 

 in the charge of a large parish, unexpectedly 

 created. 



Summer after summer, and winter after winter, 

 was passed by him abroad. It was impossible to' 



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