Front matter
THE SCIENCE
OF
HORTICULTURE,
Dedication
Possibly it may appear to some, that from the very flattering attention which your Society have been pleased to bestow on such Papers as I have occasionally taken the liberty of submitting to your inspection at various times during the past eight or ten years; your offer of publishing them among your Transactions; and your pro¬ fessed desire of making Extracts for your public Readings, ought not to have been re¬ sisted. I could not be insensible to the honour thus intended me, and felt extreme regret at being obliged to decline it; but the Regulations of your Society, excluding all further right of an Author to Papers so published, was altogether incompatible with my views of future revision and ex¬ periment.
The study of Horticultural and Experi¬ mental Gardening has been my most pleas¬ ing amusement, and has commanded my earliest attention from my childhood. I am, however, not so vain as to imagine that the Work I now lay before the Public, is so complete as to be free from error, or incapable of improvement.
DEDICATION.
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