THE AMERICAN GARDENER'S ASSISTANT In Chree Parts. CONTAINING COMPLETE PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR THE CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, FRUIT TREES, AND BY THOMAS BRIDGEMAN, NEW EDITION; REVISED, ENLARGED, AND ILLUSTRATED, By S. EDWARDS TODD. NEW YORK: WILLIAM WOOD & CO., 61 WALKER STREET. 1869. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by ALFRED BRIDGEMAN, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern Dis. trict of New York. THE NEW YORK PRINTING CO., PREFACE. SB93 378 THE primary object in first publishing THE YOUNG GARDENER'S ASSISTANT, was to enable our respectable seedsmen, while furnishing a catalogue of seed for the use of the Kitchen and Flower Garden, to afford instruction, at a trifling expense, to such of their customers as had not a regular gardener, and thereby save themselves the blame, of those who may not have given their seed a fair trial for want of knowing how to dispose of it in the ground. The Author, having shown his primary object in adopting the catalogue form, presumes that his readers will not be disappointed if they do not find there the names of all the species or varieties of plants they may wish to introduce into their gardens, the mode of culture of such being generally alike. If a catalogue of this kind was essential, it would occupy more space than is allotted to this book; besides, it would be impossible to keep pace with our enterprising horticulturists and florists, who are continually introducing new species into M347149 |