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:^^Uiu$ PREFACE. 



This Eleventh Volume of the Gardeners Magazine we have thought 



it advisable to indicate as the first of a Second Decade, or Series, not 



' to mark it as one where new subscribers may commence taking 



e work, but also because in this Second Decade we mean to intro- 



the following improvements : — 



With the last Number of every year we shall give a General 



1 of the Progress of Gardening, Agriculture, Rural Architecture, 



i.'.. estic Economy, and Rural and Domestic Improvement generally^ 



<r le past year, not only in Britain, but in other countries. The first 



■ "lese Retrospective Views will be found at p, 609. of the present 



<ne- 



Occasional articles to be headed Pomological Notices, Olitorial 

 jes, and Arboricultural Notices, for the purposes stated in the 

 ice to our Tenth Volume. Specimens of these articles will be 

 d at p. 30. 39. and l^S. of the present volume. 

 We have made what we consider a great improvement in the Table 

 ontents and in the iTidex, We have given the contents in much 

 greater detail, so as to include the heading of every paragraph consti- 

 tuting the Miscellaneous Intelligence, and the title of every book, 

 reviewed or noticed in the Catalogue, as well as that of those noticed 

 under the head of Reviews. Instead of a General Index, we have given 

 a Specific Index to the Plants ; which will be found particularly useful, 

 and will render a General Index unnecessary. We have placed the 

 index immediately after the Table of Contents, so that the reader will 

 have all the sources of reference to the volume at its commencement, 

 instead of a part at the beginning and a part at the end, as heretofore. 

 After the experience of ten years, during whi'~' we have had almost 

 daily occasion to refer to the Gardener's ilfv^^, ^„ .e, we can assert with 

 perfect confidence that these changes will greatly facilitate reference. 

 This the reader may prove, by comparing the Contents and Index 

 which immediately follow this preface with those of former volumes. 



4. With the Twelfth Volume we intend to commence a series of 

 Articles on Cookery, and chiefly on vegetable cookery, with a view to 

 the improvement of the tables of labourers, gardeners, cottagers, and 

 the middling classes. We are persuaded that, from ignorance and 

 inattention to this subject, the labouring classes, gardeners, and others, 

 of this country, are deprived of many comforts, which they might 

 enjoy, not only without any additional expense, but absolutely at less 

 cost than they now incur for a wretched, and, at the same time, ex- 

 travagant, mode of dressing provisions in some cases, and of choosing 

 their food in others. 



J. C- L. 



Baysivater, Nov. 15. 1835. 



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