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PREFACE. 
committee for awarding premiums, and thought your work 
was deserving encouragement, and that even in this small 
way we might be of service in bringing it before the public 
as WORTHY OF BEING GIVEN AS PREMIUMS. 
“ Yours very respectfully, 
“ Alexander Walsh. 
“Lansingburgh, November, 1835.” 
Extract from a review of this work, in the Magazine of Horticulture, 
Botany , <3*c., published by Hovey $ Co., Boston . 
“ The work is written in plain language, easily to be un- 
derstood by the young beginner in gardening, who will find 
it a great help ; and its value, even to the partly experienced 
person, is by no means of an ordinary character. It is 
adapted to our climate, and, unlike compilations from 
English works, the novice is not led into disappointment by 
following the rules there laid down, as he generally is when 
following the advice of the latter. We repeat, that as far 
as the book pretends, it is worth all others of a similar 
character that have ever been published in this country ; 
and its cheapness should place it in the hands of all new 
beginners.” 
It appears from an article in * The New-York Farmer 
and Horticultural Depository,’ that the first edition of the 
work was noticed in France. The editor informs us, in page 
295 of the fourth volume, “ That one of the leading articles 
in the second number of the present volume of the ‘ Annales 
de V Institute Royal Horticole de Fremont ,’ is a long notice of 
The Young Gardener’s Assistant, by T. Bridgeman, of 
this city. The editor, Le Chevalier Soulonge Bodin, speaks 
of the little work in very commendable terms.” 
Numerous other proofs could be adduced of the kind 
reception the work has met with. Suffice it to state, that it 
has been extensively noticed, and recommended to public 
