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From them, selected lists of such varieties as are suitable to our climate, &c, 

 will be made. 



The arrangement of these lists will be as follows : — 



The most approved and recently introduced Esculent Seeds and Boots 

 will accompany the articles to which they respectively belong in 

 the Culinary Garden. 



The most approved and recently obtained Hardy Fruits will in like 

 manner be found in the Hardy Fruit Garden. 



The Tropical Fruits in the Forcing Garden. And 



The more rare, choice, and interesting Trees of Ornament, &c, Flower- 

 ing Plants, &c, will accompany the Flower Garden. 



We have given some brief details of the practices of the London market- 

 gardeners, who, it must be admitted, are the best culinary gardeners in the 

 world. This is a subject scarcely hinted at by authors on gardening since the 

 days of Abercrombie, the merits of whose excellent works (we mean the 

 original editions) are mainly owing to the copious details he gave of the 

 market-gardening of his day. As nearly a century has now elapsed since he 

 wrote his first work, and as during that period a corresponding improvement 

 has taken place in that department, as well as in that of private gardening, a 

 work of this kind would be incomplete without a notice of these excellent 

 modes of culture. 



Little or nothing has been published concerning the London practice since 

 that time, and private gardeners, in general, know little how things are there 

 managed. There has been a reserve on the part of the former in affording 

 information, and an unwillingness on the side of the latter to undergo the 

 hard work to which they would be subjected, were they to spend a year in a 

 market-garden, rather than two or three loitering about a nursery — too often 

 a tax upon the proprietor, and losing much of their own valuable time. We 

 here allude to young gardeners only, who would acquire a much greater 

 amount of useful information in the general routine of their profession were 

 they to spend a year in a first-rate London market-garden, than they could do 

 in a dozen years, toiling nearly as hard, in very inferior places in the country. 

 We are far from insinuating that a nursery is a bad school for a young gar- 

 dener ; on the contrary, no man can have much pretension to a thorough 

 knowledge of his business, unless he has spent a part of his career in a first- 

 rate establishment of that kind. In it he learns what he could not do in a 

 private garden ; he learns the most approved methods of propagation, has many 



