"If you wish success, make perseverance your bosom friend, 

 experience your wise counsellor, caution your elder brother, and 

 hope your guardian genius." — Addison. 



" It is both the duty a .d interest of every Owner and Cultivator 

 of the Soil to study the best means of rendering that soil subservient 

 to his own and the general wants of the community ; and he who 

 introduces, beneficially, a new and useful Seed, Plant, or Shrub 

 into his district, is a blessing and an honour to his country." — 

 Sir J. Sinclair. 



First Edition 1892; re/>tinted iZ(^t, igoc. 



