PREFACE. 
The success of our Volume published in January last, of which a 
Second Edition has already been called for, has convinced us that books 
of useful information complete in themselves, are more popular than the 
most perfect serials that are in any way dependent on each other. This 
Miscellany is of the former description. It is the Annals of Horticulture for 
the past year, a year remarkable for the advance made in the science, and 
for the introduction of many novelties, of which there is no record so 
complete as that comprised in the present Volume. It contains many sound 
Treatises ; numerous interesting Notes ; a complete system of Gardening for 
every department of a first-rate establishment ; Lists of all the New Flowers, 
Plants, and Fruits introduced during the year ; together with a mass of 
valuable information suited alike for the Practical Gardener and the Amateur. 
It is scarcely necessary to particularize where every page is usefid ; suffice 
therefore to say, that the contents of the Work are such as to meet the wants 
and wishes of every class of Gardeners, from the humble cultivator of Pinks 
and Polyanthuses in a ten-rod allotment, to the Royal owner of Frogmore. 
As mentioned in our former Preface, " It is intended that one volume, 
similar to the present, shall be completed annually, embracing a perfect History 
of Gardening for the year, and a description of every flower, plant, fruit, and 
vegetable that is introduced during the period. With this view, the many 
novelties produced from time to time will be carefully recorded, and all that 
is new, useful, and interesting, will be published, as heretofore, in monthly 
parts, as the 'Horticultural Magazine,' and in due time form the 'Annals 
of Horticidturc' for the year." 
