TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. 



MADAM, 



By permission most graciously accorded, I HAVE the honour 

 op Dedicating this portion op my propessional labours, " THE BOOK OF THE 

 GARDEN," to your MAJESTY. I regard this act op condescension on the part op 

 my SOVEREIGN" as the greatest mark op distinction that a humble Individual could 

 wish for or expect. Indeed, during the compilation op this Work — amidst the 

 many duties i have had to discharge to one not more exalted in rank than 

 esteemed for his many virtues, whom i have the honour to serve — and when often 

 bowed down with fatigue in body and mind, i have been cheered and sustained 

 by the hope that, if spared to complete my task, my humble endeavours to 

 promote a Science, which your MAJESTY'S example has done so much to encourage, 



MIGHT BE HONOURED WITH A PLACE ON THE SHELVES OF YOUR ROYAL LIBRARY. PERMIT 

 ME ALSO, MADAM, HUMBLY, YET SINCERELY, TO RECORD WITH GRATITUDE THE OBLIGATIONS 

 I HAVE LONG BEEN UNDER TO MEMBERS OF YOUR MAJESTY'S AUGUST FAMILY, WHOM, 



with your MAJESTY, your ROYAL CONSORT, and beloved FAMILY, may GOD 



LONG PROSPER AND PRESERVE. 



MADAM, 



I have the Honour to be 



Your Majesty's most Obedient, 



Most Loyal Subject and Servant, 



CHAKLES M'INTOSH. 



Dalkeith Park, 

 January 1853. 



