PREFACE. 



This work is designed by the author to attract 

 young persons to that delightful employment, the 

 cultivation of a flower garden. It consists of fa- 

 miliar dialogues between the juvenile cultivators ; 

 the scenes of which are laid in the garden and the 

 fields, so as to impart reality and animation to their 

 inquiries. With the study of flowers he has en- 

 deavored to intermingle a taste for natural history, 

 by introducing many incidental facts relative to in- 

 sects, &c. that naturally suggest themselves in the 

 culture of a garden. How well he has succeeded^ 

 the public must judge. 



