A dictionary of modern gardening - University Library

PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION.
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 80 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 inc. ease
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,
ordireclion for cropping, &,c., cannot uniformly apply : Those who reside north or south
of Pennsylvania, can readily make the necessary calculations as to time.
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