VIII 



PREFACE. 



Agriculture performs its operations in the gross, and upon an 

 extensive scale : it may occasionally furnish the gardener with 

 new ideas, and suggest contrivances and manipulations, that 

 may facilitate, and further his labours. Horticulture, on the 

 other hand, acts in detail : it works with more precision and 

 nicety, and its refinements may sometimes prove of no small 

 benefit to the sister art. Both are employed in the cultiva- 

 tion of the soil, and in eliciting the gifts of the earth : if the 

 one is honoured, the other must also lay some claim to regard. 



Thus the Horticultural Society commits the Second Vo- 

 lume of its Writings to an enlightened, and judicious publick, 

 trusting that whatever support and encouragement may be 

 merited, will not be withheld. 



' March, 1818. 



