Mil PliEEACE 



The journey was undertaken in the anticipation 

 of the speedy establishment of an Experimental 

 Garden under the auspices of the Society, — in which 

 such promising articles as we should become the means 

 of procuring*, might be subjected to a fair trial. The 

 want of such a repository has hitherto prevented 

 the fruits of our labours from being duly reaped. 

 But we have now to congratulate the Society on 

 the prospect of this deficiency being supplied at no 

 distant period ; and we are confident that our hor- 

 ticultural friends and correspondents on the Conti- 

 nent will still, notwithstanding the lateness of our 

 applications to them, amply fulfil their promises of 

 supplying us with whatever shall seem desirable from 

 their respective districts. 



Some apology for the delay of this publication 

 may appear necessary. In point of fact, such a work 

 did not enter into our contemplation. Shortly after 

 our return, two Reports from the Deputation were 

 read, at different meetings of the Society ; and it 

 was not intended to say more on the subject till the 

 operations of the Experimental Garden had com- 

 menced, when some practical results could be appeal- 

 ed to. Several highly respectable members, however, 

 having expressed a desire to see the Jouinal of our 

 Tour in a printed form, the Council of the Society 

 requested us to send it to the press. The task of 

 preparing the MS. fell upon me; and only a few 

 sheets had been cast off, when illness compelled me 

 to i.i\ aside the undertaking for more than a year. 



