VI PREFACE. 



The forcing department has been considered foreign 

 to the purpose of this work, and Is therefore entirely 

 omitted. In recommending particular modes of cul- 

 tivation, it has been wished to present the reader with 

 one or two methods of operation, that experience has 

 shown to be simple and effectual, rather than to intro- 

 duce a great number of different plans, among which 

 the unskilful reader can never know which to select 

 in preference, and where the chances are, perhaps, in 

 favour of his making choice of that which is least 

 adapted to practice. 



While thus much may be said of the Author and his 

 work, it is at the same time necessary to explain why 

 no mention is made of some sorts which are common in 

 particular districts. In such cases it is to be understood, 

 that the variety omitted is considered either so like 

 some kind already described as to be undeserving of 

 particular notice, or so little valuable as to be unworthy 

 of cultivation. 



In all other respects the work speaks for itself. 

 Under that impression, the Editor would only add, that 

 nothing in the following pages is to be ascribed to him- 

 self, except the introductory matter, and such typo- 

 graphical errors as may have remained uncorrected 

 during the progress of the work through the press. 



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London, July 1. 1831. 



