с THE AMERICAN FLOWER GARDEN DIRECTORY: CONTAINING PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR THE CULTURE OF PLANTS IN THE FLOWER GARDEN, HOT-HOUSE, GREEN-HOUSE, ROOMS, FOR EVERY MONTH IN THE YEAR. WITH A Description of the Plants most desirable in each, the Nature of the Soil, and Situation INSTRUCTIONS FOR ERECTING A HOT-HOUSE, GREEN-HOUSE, AND LAYING OUT A ALSO, Table of Soils most congenial to the Plants contained in the Work. THE WHOLE ADAPTED To either Large or Small Gardens, with instructions for preparing the Soil, Propagating, GRAPE VINE. With Descriptions of the best Sorts for cultivating in the BY ROBERT BUIST, NURSERYMAN AND FLORIST. PHILADELPHIA: E. L. CAREY & A. HART. 1839. Harvard Olge Library July 1, 1914. Georgina Lov. Putnam Lan 212839- 36843 ENTERED, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1839, by CAREY & HART, in the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. NAB 1800 636 1839 PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. THIS Volume owes its existence principally to the repeated requests of a number of our fair patrons, and amateur supporters, whose inquiries and wishes for a practical manual on Floraculture, at last induced us to prepare a work on the subject. That now offered is given unaffectedly and simply as a plain and easy treatise on this increasingly interesting subject. It will at once be perceived that there are no pretensions to literary claims-the directions are given in the simplest manner-the arrangement made as lucidly as was in our powerand the whole is presented with the single wish of its being practically useful. How far our object has been attained, of course our readers must judge. Nothing has been intentionally concealed; and all that is asserted is the result of minute observation, close application, and an extended continuous experience from childhood. We pretend not to infallibility, and are not so sanguine as to declare our views the most perfect that can be attained. But we can so far say, that the practice here recommended has been found very successful. Some very probably may be disappointed in not having the means of propagating as clearly deli |