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PREFACE. 



I have endeavored to meet their views ; and my plan of Floriculture may 

 be carried into effect by any lady who can command the services of an old 

 man, a woman, or a stout boy. In the present Edition, the publishers have 

 added a paper on Window Gardening, written by Mr. M'Tntosh — and 

 another on Domestic Greenhouses, an apparatus by which a small collec- 

 tion of exotics may be given in great perfection, and by a process which 

 any lady may superintend with much gratification. In every other respect 

 the work is the result of my own experience, and I dedicate it to all of my 

 own sex who delight in flowers, and yet cannot allow themselves to enter 

 into great expense in their cultivation. 



LOUISA JOHNSON. 



