scizyQZ or gardeni^'g. 



conTer^.i:: cn-j 'rl:2 theories, finds himself continually 



^::h :ii:re : : : h — " :i I liu' le to perpetual failure : for tlie 

 c : : ::t-: : r-v' :^ : r" ii '^- :' ~ rxperience being unknown 

 an:i-_er'-T::f ii: :h:i:^-:hr- he attempts can prosper. 



He: :t tIt :r ^:_r_:e, and the precepts of 



ex;: ti it c-.ri r.hke xecrs-?.: " : enable any one to garden 



:::::: ;:.:h" :.x:". ::ixe:: h:^ ; i: :::ce according to the 

 ::x:h::;x^ ^-h::h he hx;h the objects of his 

 oa.re "heevd, T':ve^x>°; ^ ~ t f. :■ • ii' : ': e : e : -.;res is the 

 Tur': :-e o: the ee-ext _ - . _ :'. .~e :h:.'.. : t-mmence 

 vhth >hei.ce; l= the fy;.:: :lr;;::i:'etone of the building. 



B. THE SCIENCE AXD PRINCIPLES OF 

 GAPDEXIhT'h. 



To t:xe.ee~t:ei:'. e::er :-> the xrev :x -^hich plants live, 

 and :ee x: veorOi h xe ; x ; : xt thx hit h theer principal 

 ^ 0: - exo vex >:t:r^ xt t t ;e -x ixixeh ^^'e ^hall only, 

 e x" t~ ee. . . . . xe xt :: thr^: :x it eeehx :x h^pensable 

 to etXtxUe in cehcr to gixe a clear \x=-,v of their 

 cnhxx xox, 



A- ""xt^^ x_i eexxe' ix^tcin. every vegetable is furnished 

 itx c-ix ie v i organs which are essential to its 

 itehx 1-1 iTiri X 11 :x. ir its very existence. An organ is 

 x: X hoxi xhiih : xeupies a certain position, and 

 exixi- ceexix izice^ ix iti eeexomy, and to which a par- 

 ticular ax x xi~tixxxiihix- xxo 1 - applied. Stems, leaves, 

 roots, flovTrr^. are - xch or^oxi ; and some of these have 

 subordinate parts, by which special and peculiar offices are 

 performed. The sponeelets or tips of the roots — the pores, 

 situated i iius of the ext- ^ hce — the 



sap, whie^ , blood of the , -and the 



alburnum, which is the incipient layer deposited yearly 

 beneath the bark of woody plants, to increase their bulk 

 — are examples of such parts. 



