yj_ PREFACE. 
affording him that correct, judicious and suitable instruction, 
the happy result of which would give impulse to his perse- 
verance. 
To obviate this necessity, as much as is in my power, and to 
contribute my mite to the welfare of my fellow citizens, and 
to the general improvement of the country, I have undertaken 
this work, and arranged the matter according to the seasons of 
the year, that the reader may have an easy reference to the 
particular business to be performed in every month. By this 
means the subject becomes a daily amusement and study, 
applicable at the moment, and consequently leaving a lasting 
impression on the memory; which, if attended to for a few 
years, may make any person who has a taste for admiring and 
enjoying the magnificence, beauties and bounties of Nature in 
its vegetable productions, a complete Master of the Art, and if 
he pleases, his own Gardener. 
In writing this treatise, I have had recourse to the best pub- 
lications, American, English, French and Latin, lest any useful 
suggestions or modern improvements in the art should escape 
my notice or recollection; still keeping in view, not only the 
difference of climate, season, and the necessary modes of cul- 
ture in foreign countries, but also in the extensive region of 
which the United States are composed. It is, however, prob- 
able, notwithstanding all my assiduity and care in collecting 
as much information as possible with respect to the most proper 
seaso7is for sowing particular kinds of seeds, &c. in the remote 
parts of the Union, that I have fallen into some mistakes; for 
these, as well as typographical errors, to which a work of this 
kind is unavoidably subject, I solicit the reader's excuse; and 
shall consider myself under serious obligations to those whose 
personal friendship or patriotism shall induce them to inform 
me of any horticultural errors which I may have committed 
or improvements that may be made, in order that the former 
be corrected, and the latter, if justified by experience, published 
in some future work, or edition of this. 
The culture and management of Grape-Vines, and all other 
kinds of fruit trees which can be cultivated with us to advan- 
tage, or even to indulge curiosity; the raising and planting of 
Thorn Quicks and other plants suitable for Live Hedges; the 
