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THE planter's guide. 



and underwood. From the novelty of the subject, and 

 the difficulty of making manual operations intelligible by 

 words, the whole account has, unavoidably, been drawn 

 more into leng^th than might have been expected. Some 

 apology, therefore, on the score of tediousness and cir- 

 cumstantial detail, is due to those who may open the 

 book from mere curiosity. To those, on the other hand, 

 who read for information, and whose object is real prac- 

 tice, the case is considerably different, as they perhaps 

 may be of opinion that the detail, long as it is, has not 

 been given circumstantially enough. 



