FREFACK. 1\ 



In consequence, however, of this delay, and of my 

 having made a second trip to the Continent in 1821, 

 I have been enabled to supply an account of some of 

 the excellent horticultural establishments at Paris, 

 which we were obliged to leave unvisited in 1817. 



Our original notes were pretty extensive, having 

 been regularly made out every evening ; but they 

 were necessarily expressed in a brief manner, and 

 frequently unconnected. In transcribing them for 

 the press, little more has been done than reducing 

 them into some kind of order, and enlarging suf- 

 ficiently to give to each day's journal the charac- 

 ter of a connected narrative ; the diary style being 

 otherwise carefully retained. In a very few places 

 only, have some additional remarks been thrown in ; 

 and these, 1 perceive, have occasioned some slight 

 anachronisms, for which the reader's indulgence is 

 craved. We wish it to be understood, that we claim 

 no merit whatever, except in reporting as faithfully 

 as possible what we saw, and as accurately as our 

 hurried movements would permit. The literary 

 imperfections of the work must be ascribed wholly 

 to myself; while any useful horticultural remarks 

 that may be found, are doubtless due to the experi- 

 enced professional friends with whom I had the good 

 fortune to travel. The occasional introduction of to- 

 pics unconnected with gardening, might, it was judged, 

 tend to interest a wider circle of readers, without in- 

 fringing materially on the principal object. But, as 

 our route lay through places which are among the 



