PREFACE. 



a few, and thofe only that have in a particular manner engaged 

 my attention, and of which I have had much experience. 



To have the various produdlions of Gardening in any degree 

 of perfedlion, I doubt we muft inlarge our prefent plan, of keep- 

 ing one gardener only where much is to be done. I have for a 

 fucceflion of years, and at different feafons, vifited with attention 

 many of the moft elegant and magnificent feats in Great-Britain, , 

 but never once in my life have feen all the different branches of 

 the bufinefs properly executed, and the crops feafonably and 

 imiformly flourifhing, in regular progreffion and beauty, under 

 the management of one man. And how indeed is it pofTible it 

 fhould be? Every gardener has his favourite points, which 

 will be firft and befl done, and every fpecies of garden- 

 ing muft be attended to at feveral periods of the year ; but, in 

 the fpring, much the greateft part of all muft be executed in a 

 few weeks. The kitchen-garden muft be crop'd with its various 

 feeds and plants ; hot-beds muft be made, and conftantiy at- 

 tended to ; the green-houfe, hot-houfe, and flower-garden, will 

 employ much of the principal gardener's time and perfonal la- 

 bour, — as will alfo the fruit-garden, in pruning the efpalier, 

 wall, and ftandard trees. Thefe different parts have indeed a 

 nearer connefhion than the others, and may with propriety come 

 vinder the direction of one man, which, if he executes well, by 

 providing a large family, and elegant table, in the great variety 

 of wholefome hixury thefe gardens fliould abound with, he will 

 find no idle time to fpare, though a perfon of knowledge 

 in his profeffion, and of the greateft fobriety and indu- 

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