The Allotments and Small Holdings Acts were intended 
to promote such results, and it is much to be hoped that the 
ranks of the farm tenants of this country, which have been 
thinned by the disasters of recent years, may by their means 
be supplied with valuable recruits. I am sure this little work 
will, if properly studied and applied, prove a most useful 
auxiliary towards the promotion of this most beneficial object. 
The book, however, is addressed to all classes of Gardeners, 
to the managers of many acred domains, as well as to the 
owners of window boxes, and attention to its precepts will 
increase not only the returns, but the satisfaction derived from 
their pursuit. 
Horticulture is a delight to most right-minded persons, 
including many who are untrained and unscientific; but it cannot 
be doubted that the more knowledge there is of the mysteries 
and phenomena of life and growth, the more grasp of the 
principles upon which all progress and skilled experiment must 
be founded, the truer and higher will be the pleasure. 
Such then is the scope and aim of this book. They are 
such as must commend it to all lovers of horticulture, and to 
all who wish to see a fresh source of profit and pleasure 
opened out to thousands who at present enjoy but too little 
of either. 
COBHAM. 
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