PREFACE 



TO THE FIRST VOLUME. 



ixS the general plan and intention of my 

 first publication have been a good deal 

 misunderstood, I wish to give a short ac- 

 count of them both. 



The title itself might have shewn, that I 

 aimed at something more than a mere book 

 of gardening; some, however, have con- 

 ceived that I ought to have begun by set- 

 ting forth all my ideas of lawns, shrubberies, 

 gravel-walks &c. ; and as my arrange* 

 ment did not coincide with their notions 

 of what it ought to have been, they seem 



to have concluded that I had no plan at all. 



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