DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to witt 



District Clerk^s Office. 



Be it remembered. That on the eighteenth day ot July, A. D, 1828, in the fifty 

 third year of the Independence of the United States of America, J. B. Russell, of the 

 j-did (lisirict, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof ha 

 claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : 



*' Tlie New American Gardener ; containing practical Directions on the Culture of 

 •^ruits and Vegetables ; including Landscape and Ornamental Gardening, Grape- 

 ' ine^. Silk, Strawberries, &c. &c. By Thomas G. Fessenden, Editor of the New 

 jSiigland Farmer. 



" God Almighty first planted a Garden ; and indeed it is the purest of human 

 pleasures : it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man ; without which 

 wuildingg and palaces are but gross handy-works. — Bacon's Essays." 



In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, " An Act 

 for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books 

 '.o the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned 

 4nd also to an act, entitled, An Act supplementary to an act, entitled, An Act 

 fur the encouragemient of learning, by securing the ^ies of maps, charts, and books, 

 •c the authors and proprietors of such, copies dur^ the times therein mentioned ; 

 &Dd extending the benefits thereof to the arts of 'gning, engraving, and etching 

 kiitorical and other prints." i < 



\ JNO. W. DAVIS, 



Clerk of the District of Massachusetts 



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Stereotyped at the 

 Boston Type ana Stereotype Foundry, 



