PEEFACE TO FIRST EDITION. 



THE constant demand for some reliable guide to 

 Horticultural operations in this Colony has induced 

 the publication of the following cultural hints for 

 the Greenhouse and Conservatory as well as the 

 Flower, Fruit, and Kitchen Gardens. Much pains 

 have been taken to make them not only strictly 

 correct but sufficiently clear and explicit to guide the 

 Amateur as well as the Professional Gardener. Be- 

 fore the MS. was committed finally to the Press, it 

 was carefully revised by the Superintendent of the 

 Eoyal Society's Gardens, Hobart Town, to whom the 

 Publishers desire to express their special thanks for 

 the readiness with which he undertook this work. 



PEEFACE TO SECOND EDITION. 



THE first edition of this manual having been out of 

 print for some time past, the Publishers entrusted 

 the preparation of a second edition to Mr. Thomas 

 Wade, of Pomona House, Launceston, by whom the 



