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HORTICULTURE:

OR,

AN ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN

THE PRINCIPAL OPERATIONS OF GARDENING

UPON PHYSIOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES.

BY

JOHN LINDLEY, PH.D. F.R.S.,

VICE-SECRETARY OF THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, AND PROFESSOR OF
BOTANY IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.

"Though I am very sensible that it is from long experience chiefly that we are to expect the most certain rules
of practice, yet it is withal to be remembered that the likeliest method to enable us to make the most judicious
observations, and to put us upon the most probable means of improving any art, is to get the best insight we can
into the nature and properties of those things which we are desirous to cultivate and improve." --- Hales's Vegetable
Statice, 1. 376.

SECOND AMERICAN EDITION, WITH NOTES, ETC.

BY

A. J. DOWNING.

NEW YORK:

WILEY AND HALSTED,

851 BROADWAY