The ordinary form in cases of reprint, with additions and explanatory notes, has been departed from in the present instance with a desire to preserve the book from the awkward aspect which it would necessarily present, if every addition by the American editor had been included within brackets, or printed in varied type.

This edition has been greatly altered from the original. Many articles of little interest to Americans have been curtailed, or wholly omitted, and much new matter, with numerous illustrations, added; yet the present editor freely admits, and has desired the publishers to state, that he has only followed in the path so admirably marked out by Mr. Johnson, to whom the chief merit of the work belongs. It has been an object with the publishers, and editor, to increase its popular character, thereby adapting it to the larger class of horticultural readers in this country, and they trust it may prove what they have desired it to be, an Encyclopaedia of Gardening, if not of Rural Affairs, so condensed as to be within reach of most persons whom those subjects interest.

THE PUBLISHERS.

Philadelphia, April, 1S47.

Note

It is evident that with a territory extending over so large a space, a monthly calendar, or direction for cropping, etc., cannot uniformly apply: Those who reside north or south of Pennsylvania, can readily make the necessary calculations as to time.