PREFACE. 
This Third Volume being now completed, we beg again to return 
our best thanks to those friends who have used their endeavours to 
promote the general good, by making known the results of their ex¬ 
perience in the different departments of Gardening, &c. and we 
have no doubt they have felt a secret pleasure in being able to add 
to the general fund of knowledge, and will continue to feel a greater 
and increasing pleasure, when, in their periodical calls on their fel¬ 
low Gardeners, they see the hints they had dropped, acted upon with 
the success they desired. 
Amongst other excellent papers in this volume, we may notice 
those on Chemistry, as connected with the Developement and 
Growth of Plants, by “ the Author of the Domestic Gardener’s 
Manual,” which to young Gardeners and Amateurs in particular 
are of great importance, and to the experienced practical man they 
will not be without their value. The system of propagating Vines, 
by coiling the branches in pots, is cleverly advocated and explained 
by Mr. Mearns, whose well known abilities render his remarks dou¬ 
bly valuable, because they may be entirely depended upon. The 
mode of successfully growing Vines in Pots is again taken up by 
Mr. Stafford and others; this cannot be too much recommended, 
indeed we hope to see the day, when the Culture of Vines in Pots 
shall be generally adopted, not to the exclusion of those on the 
Rafters, but as auxiliaries to supply the table at seasons when it 
would be inconvenient or difficult to put those on the Rafters into 
action. A Classification of Garden Peas, including the height, 
qualities, season of use, &c. is given by Mr. Townsend, which, as a 
remembrancer to the experienced, and to assist in the instruction of 
the young Gardener, will be very useful. The system of Heating 
with Hot-Water is also explained at length, and Engravings given 
explanatory of the same, together with many other things of general 
utility-. 
Chatsworth , Nov. 24, 1834. 
