1792/01/01 by James W. Maddock, Stephen Couchman, B. White and Sons +2 · 1 citation
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Flowering Plant Growth and Cultivation #Urban Agriculture and Sustainability #Directory #Soil water #Botany #Geography #Horticulture #Biology #Agroforestry #Ecology #Computer science
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openalex publication_date 1792/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
requeft of many refpeftable Florifts, who have fufFered repeated lofles, and have been difcouraged in their favourite pur- fuit of cultivating the finer flowers ; as well as of others, who have been deterred from entering with fpirit into this mofl rational and pleafmg amufement, for want of a fuitable guide, or diredor, to inftru6l them in the rudiments of the art ; pointing out, on the one hand, the moft approved methods of culture A yet ii PREFACE.yet difcovered, and, on the other, guard- ing them againft the pernicious confequences arifmg from improper modes of treatment.The Author, with much diffidence, fubmits the following pages to the peru- fal of fuch ; and at the fame time ear- neftly folicits the candour and indulgence of the reader, in excufingany inaccuracies they may be found to contain, as his objeft, in the publication, is to afford what little afliftance he is capable of, to the inexperienced, without arrogating to himfelf any fuperior qualifications for a work of this nature, beyond others who perhaps may be more capable of exe- cuting it ; but who, however, have not yet thought proper