INTRODUCTION 



In offering the Garden Calendar for 1862, I cannot refrain from 

 acknowledging the success which attended the first effort ; thus encou- 

 raged, I have been induced to increase the number of its pages, and 

 add many hints and directions, which it is hoped may be found useful 

 to my customers, and those who may desire to avail themselves of them. 

 It has been myaim to give brief and concise directions, with select lists 

 in the various departments of Horticulture ; the field is, however, so 

 extensive, and the number of objects so vast, that the greatest labor in 

 preparing this little work for the press, has been how to condense and 

 select from each sufficiently, to come within the limits of these pages. 

 With all its imperfections, I still hope it may have some influence in 

 extending a love for horticultural pursuits. In concluding, I would 

 state that all the articles mentioned in its pages can be had at my esta- 

 blishment, and every care will be taken in putting up orders, be they 

 large or small, to give full satisfaction to the purchaser in the quality 

 of the article, as well as in the manner of packing and forwarding. 



HENRY A. DKEER, 



327 Chestnut Street, PMIad'a. 



