DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to wit : 



District Clerk^s Office. 



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

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

 jaid district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he 

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



** The New American Gardener ; containing practical Directions , on the Culture of 

 Fruits and Vegetables ; including Landscape and Ornamental Gardening, Grap»- 

 rines. Silk, Strawberries, &e. &lc. By Thomas G. Fessenden, Editor of the New.^_ 

 jSiigland Farmer. | 



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

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

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

 f,o the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned 5'' 

 *nd also to an act, entitled, " An Act supplementary to an act, entitled. An Act 

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

 ic the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned ; 

 b.nd extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching 

 kftStorical and other prints." 



JNO. W. DAVIS, 

 Clerk of the District of Massachusetts 



Stereotyped at the 

 Mmtm Type ana Stereoti/pe Foundry, 



