Vlll PREFACE. 
best of the old lessons with much thai is new ; and, being founded on experience, 
the whole may be relied on as applicable to every amateur Gardener's 
establishment, and useful to many who have been cultivators all their lives. 
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 Horticulture" for the year. 
