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By J. C. LOUDON, F.L.S. H.S. &c.

AUTHOR OF THE ENCYCLOPEDIAS OF GARDENING, OF AGRICULTURE, AND OF COTTAGE, FARM
AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE, AND EDITOR OF THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PLANTS.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR

LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMAN,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

SBY
G45
V.11
ENVI

LONDON:
Printed by A. SPOTTISWOODE,
New-Street-Square.

PREFACE.

THIS Eleventh Volume of the Gardener's Magazine we have thought it advisable to indicate as the first of a Second Decade, or Series, not only to mark it as one where new subscribers may commence taking in the work, but also because in this Second Decade we mean to introduce the following improvements:

1. With the last Number of every year we shall give a General View of the Progress of Gardening, Agriculture, Rural Architecture, Domestic Economy, and Rural and Domestic Improvement generally, for the past year, not only in Britain, but in other countries. The first of these Retrospective Views will be found at p. 609. of the present volume.

2. Occasional articles to be headed Pomological Notices, Olitorial Notices, and Arboricultural Notices, for the purposes stated in the preface to our Tenth Volume. Specimens of these articles will be found at p. 30. 39. and 148. of the present volume.

3. We have made what we consider a great improvement in the Table of Contents and in the Index. We have given the contents in much greater detail, so as to include the heading of every paragraph constituting the Miscellaneous Intelligence, and the title of every book, reviewed or noticed in the Catalogue, as well as that of those noticed under the head of Reviews. Instead of a General Index, we have given a Specific Index to the Plants; which will be found particularly useful, and will render a General Index unnecessary. We have placed the index immediately after the Table of Contents, so that the reader will have all the sources of reference to the volume at its commencement, instead of a part at the beginning and a part at the end, as heretofore. After the experience of ten years, during which we have had almost daily occasion to refer to the Gardener's Magazine, we can assert with perfect confidence that these changes will greatly facilitate reference. This the reader may prove, by comparing the Contents and Index which immediately follow this preface with those of former volumes. 4. With the Twelfth Volume we intend to commence a series of Articles on Cookery, and chiefly on vegetable cookery, with a view to the improvement of the tables of labourers, gardeners, cottagers, and the middling classes. We are persuaded that, from ignorance and inattention to this subject, the labouring classes, gardeners, and others, of this country, are deprived of many comforts, which they might enjoy, not only without any additional expense, but absolutely at less cost than they now incur for a wretched, and, at the same time, extravagant, mode of dressing provisions in some cases, and of choosing their food in others. J. C. L.

Bayswater, Nov. 15. 1835.

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