PREFACE. 



en the last volume of the Transactions was published, 

 it was found necessary to offer an apology to the Fellows of 

 the Society for the delay which had taken place in its com- 

 pletion. It is satisfactory to be able now to state, that the 

 difficulties by which the delay alluded to was caused, are 

 so far removed, that the present volume has been completed 

 within the customary period. It has been published in five 

 separate parts, and contains a large body of original Horti- 

 cultural information ; such as it may be safely affirmed is not 

 to be found in any other publication of the same period. 

 Of so great importance indeed has it been esteemed by 

 the public, both at home and abroad, that a very consi- 

 derable portion of every Foreign and Domestic Journal in 

 which the subject of Horticulture is noticed, derives a large 

 part, and in some cases almost the entire of its interest from 

 Extracts from these Transactions. Among the contributors 

 by whom this information has been supplied, are ranked 

 some of the most philosophical, as well as practical Horti- 

 culturists of the day ; their number is nearly the same as 

 heretofore. 

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