INTRODUCTION. 



Ix an age when gardening, in all its branches, is 

 becoming a fashionable pursuit, the press naturally 

 teems with works, fraught with every information 

 that can be desired, respecting both its principles 

 and practice. The want, however, of a little 

 manual of general and simple directions for the 

 management of small gardens, was long felt, 

 previous to the first issue of the present work ; 

 and the numerous editions of it which have 

 successively been distributed, proves that the 

 public wishes were both anticipated and grati- 

 fied by the efforts of the author to supply this 

 desideratum. 



It is needless to observe, that most works on 

 gardening are written for the members of the 



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