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PROSPECTUS. 



Bridges, Fences, Rock-work, Rustic Work, Hermitages, Resting- 

 places, Rivulets, and Cascades : — 



The arrangement of Gardens and Parterres with reference to the 

 Grouping of Colours, their Harmony and Contrasts. &c. &c. &c. 



This Division of the Work will be profusely Illustrated by upwards op a 

 Thousand Engravings on Copper and on Wood, representing every descrip- 

 tion of Garden Structure, with Diagrams exhibiting the details of construc- 

 tion, Glazing, Roofing, Heating, Ventilating, &c. 



In the Floricultural Department, Plans of Flower Gardens, on a variety 

 of scales, will be given, with their proper ornaments and accessories ; also, 

 Beautifully Coloured Examples of the Pictorial effects produced by the 

 Harmony and Contrast of Colours in the arrangement of Plants in Gardens 

 and Parterres, &c. 



In the SECOND DIVISION, the Theory and Practice of Horticul- 

 ture will be treated on the somewhat novel plan of arrangement under the 

 Four Seasons — namely, Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn ; a method 

 which, it is hoped, will present greater facilities to the inquiring reader, and 

 be less liable to needless repetition, than any hitherto adopted. In each 

 department the subject will be treated at length ; and while the most 

 approved methods will be carefully detailed, all obsolete and erroneous 

 practices will be omitted or exposed ; the object of the Author being to present 

 a complete and comprehensive Treatise on the Art of Horticulture, according 

 to the most perfect systems now in operation. 



Descriptive Lists will be added of all the best varieties of Fruits and Vege- 

 tables. 



The Book of the Garden may be said to be the result of a lifetime — its 

 Author having been from his earliest years engaged in Horticulture, and 

 having had the very best opportunities of acquiring a thorough and extended 

 knowledge of his art, For the last eight-and-twenty years he has been in 

 charge of the Gardens, first of the King of the Belgians, at Claremont and 

 Brussels, and latterly of the Duke of Buccleuch. 



Her Majesty has graciously intimated her willingness that the Book of 

 the Garden should be dedicated to herself. It is hoped that its own merits, 

 as well as the style of its Printing and Illustration, will be worthy of the 

 Royal patronage so graciously conferred upon it. 



The Work will be beautifully printed with a new type, on superfine 

 paper ; — the numerous Copper-Plates and Engravings on Wood which illus- 

 trate it have been executed in the highest style of art by Messrs W. & A. K. 

 Johnston and Mr R. E. Branston ; — and no expense has been spared by the 

 Publishers to render this the most elegant, as well as the most comprehensive 

 and valuable Work which has yet appeared on the Art of Gardening. It will 

 be issued in Five-Shilling Parts, monthly ; and will form, when complete, 

 two large volumes in royal octavo. 



