PREFACE. 



The First Edition of my work on "Choice Stove 

 ■and Greenhouse Flowering Plants" has met with 

 such success that it encourages me to issue a Second 

 Edition, and, as well as the large sale I have had, 

 it has been found useful to amateurs as well as 

 gardeners in their pursuits. 



I have received intimations and assurances how 

 "thoroughly the work, both as a practical and useful 

 •one, has been appreciated. It is highly gratifying 

 to me, and induces me to enlarge upon the subject by 

 adding those plants that have been introduced since 

 my first work on this subject was published. I have 

 endeavoured to make it equally interesting to my 

 readers as a second volume as it has been as a first, 

 in the hopes that I may be spared to some future 

 period to enlarge even more fiiUy than I have done 

 :tiow, in the meantime my best thanks are due to my 

 numerous patrons. 



In laying the companion volume — devoted entirely 

 to Stove and Greenhouse Plants with Ornamental 

 Leaves — ^before the public, I am not without hope 

 that, while redeeming a promise made in a former 

 work, I may, at the same time, be afibrdmg equally 

 useful information to a numerous circle of readers. 



