INTRODUCTION 



TO THE 



SECOND EDITION 



The following treatise on the grafting, pruning, train- 

 ing, and general management of fruit trees having 

 been submitted for my opinion, with a view to the 

 issue of a new edition, with such alterations and im- 

 provements as I might suggest, I have carefully read 

 it, and examined the practical directions throughout. 

 There would have been no difficulty in making altera- 

 tions and additions, since the subject is capable of 

 enlargement to any extent ; but the work is complete. 

 It professes to direct the gardener in all the operations 

 necessary, from the insertion of the graft to the 

 completion of the tree, and the proper management 

 through all its stages ; and the instructions in all the 

 various modes of grafting are full and comprehensive ; 

 many of them fanciful, and perhaps whimsical ; but 

 now that amateur gardening has become a fashionable 

 amusement, the ingenious methods adopted by the 

 French, who are in advance of us in fanciful grafting, 



