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PREFACE. 



The companion volume^ formerly published by Messrs. 

 Longman and Co. as " The Suburban Gardener/^ is now being 

 reprinted, uniform with the present work, and much improved, 

 under the title of The Villa Gardener.^' This work 

 embraces the whole subject of Villa and Suburban Gardens 

 and pleasure grounds ; garden structures (particularly of orna- 

 mental greenhouses, a number of designs for which have been 

 made expressly for this edition) ; laying out flower gardens, 

 and floriculture in general; and the two volumes will be found 

 to contain together a complete system of garden culture and 

 arrangement. 



In the present edition only such corrections and additions 

 have been made as were absolutely necessary to bring the work 

 up to the state of gardening knowledge at the present day. 



Bayswater, 



May 1, 1849. 



J. W. L. 



