PKEFACE TO THIED EDITION. 



It is highly gratifying to us to find that the Second 

 Edition of this work has had such a rapid sale, and has 

 been circulated widely both on the Continent and in 

 the Colonies, independent of the home demand ; facts 

 which show the opinions of Cultivators, Amateurs, and 

 Gardeners respecting the utility of it. 



In preparing the Third Edition, it has been our aim 

 to make it as complete as possible, by increasing the 

 number of woodcuts, and adding all the most meritorious 

 new species and varieties of Stove and Greenhouse 

 Flowering Plants up to the present time ; we have also 

 added some cuts of Greenhouses, &c., from which our 

 readers will be able to gain ideas as to the arrangement 

 of their plants, and the forms in which they should be 

 trained for exhibition or decorative purposes ; these 

 additions have greatly increased the size and cost of 

 production of the work, and we have been reluctantly 

 compelled to raise the price to 7/6, which we feel certain 

 our readers will not object to. 



We have endeavoured to render the instructions herein 



