THE PRACTICAL GARDENER 
Ami MODERN HORTICULTURIST, 
Sn which the most approved Methods are laid down far the Management of 
the Kitchen, Fruit, and Flower Garden, the Green house, Hot house, Con- 
servatory, &c. for every Month in the Year, including the new Method of 
Healing Forcing-Houses with Hot Water only; forming a complete System 
of Modern Practice in the various Branches of Horticultural Science. 
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the most esteemed Fruits mid Flowers, and the latest approved Liosigns for the Ercciiou 
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By CHARLES M'INTOSH, C.M.C.H.S. 
Head Gardener to the King of Belgium, at Claremont, 
Also by the same Author, and forming a suitable Companion to the above, 
a new and elegant Work, entitled 
FLORA AND POMONA; 
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Containing Descriptions of the most valuable and interesting Flowers and 
Fruits cultivated in the Gardens of Great Britain, the Period of their 
Introduction, Botanical Character, Mode of Culture, Time of Flowering, &c. j 
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THE HISTORY AND PROGRESS OF THE 
STEAM ENGINE, 
Embracing Descriptions of more than Two Hundred different Modifications 
of that stupendous Machine, from the earliest Period uf the Invention, to 
the present time, accompanied by a critical Investigation of the Merits and 
Defects of each, and illustrated by upwards of 300 Engravings, reduced from 
working Drawings. 
To this exuberant portion of the Work is superadded, an Account of all 
the various Engines deriving their motive forces from water, filter, alcohol , 
essential oils, the liquifiubh gases, atmospheric air, fyc. ; — of Lhe most ap- 
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Vessels; of the various Steam Coaches; the different kinds of Rail Roads, 
(including that magnificent one between LIVERPOOL and MANCHES- 
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especially such as have been devised for the consumption of Smoke; also 
a separate consideration of the constituent parts of Steam Engines, in all 
their diversified forms. The whole combining a mass of Information essen- 
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experienced Engineer, and not to be obtained through the medium of any 
other work whatever, but which can be sought for only by tedious exami- 
nation of several hundred volumes of the various scientific works and 
periodical journals. 
^ The First Part of this Work was written by Elijah Gallowav, Civil 
Engineer, and continued by Luke Hehert, Editor of the Register of Arts 
ana Juumal uf Patent Inventions, 
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