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more valuable in each succeeding year as matters of history. 

 They would furnish invaluable material for the study of the 

 direction and extent of variation in cultivated plants; and, as 

 varieties increase, they should serve a purpose in preventing 

 the duplication of varietal names. A contribution to such 

 comprehensive record has been made in this volume, in the 

 insertion of a list of all the varieties of kitchen garden vege- 

 tables now cultivated in North America, so far as the names 

 can be learned. The list has been prepared at immense labor 

 and with great care. It is expected that similar lists for fruits 

 and ornamentals will be added in other years. 



The present volume is in many directions fragmentary and 

 incomplete in design. It is prepared under the pressure of 

 many new enterprises, and it has the faults inherent in new 

 ventures. It is particularly desired that future volumes shall 

 be broader in their scope, and that European horticulture, 

 particularly in all its relations to our own, shall receive greater 

 attention. It is the purpose to present in each volume a few 

 fresh and attractive accounts of the horticultural interests of 

 other countries, in extension of the plan already inaugurated 

 in our last chapter. 



The author is aware that accumulations of the year can 

 never be complete unless the horticulturists of the country 

 co-operate in making them, and he will be grateful for any 

 facts which are worthy of record. 



L. H. BAILEY. 



Garden Home, Ithaca, N. Y. 



December ji, 1889. 



