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Preface
Horticulture, it will readily be allowed, is one of the most agreeable recreations, and one of the most useful arts, with which we are acquainted. Besides affording a liealthful and rational amusement, it furnishes us with a large proportion both of the necessaries and luxuries of life. Nevertheless, the author of the following pages w'ould not have thought himself justified in calling the attention of the public to a subject on which so much has already been written, had he not been conscious that the subject is of so extensive a nature that there are some branches of it which are not yet fully understood. Every one w'ho has been engaged in Horticultural pursuits must be fully aware, from painful experience, that the Horticulturist has to struggle against almost innumerable enemies of the insect race, by which all is exertions are frequently rendered abortive. The principal object which the author of this work proposed to himself was to give such information as would enable the Horticulturist to free himself from the most formidable of his insect
VI enemies. With this object he has for several yeai-s devoted liimself carefully to the observation of the habits and history of those animals, and has tried a great number of experiments for their destruction, the result of which he now lays before the public. He has thought it necessary to give a description of the appearance and habits of the different insects to be destroyed, as well as a short history of their different changes and processes, that every one may be able to detect them, and may understand at what times the Recipes can be applied with effect, and when, from the state of the insect, they and all other remedies will be quite useless — ^a point of great importance, but one which has been hitherto altogether neglected. If the Recipes are found to be effectual, he will have effected all that he intended; he has not been in the habit of writing, but ventures to hope that the usefulness of the information which he communicates, will apologize for the defects of the style and composition.
Knostrop, near Leeds, Jan. 1, 1820.
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You’ve reached the end of A treatise on the insects most prevalent on fruit trees, and garden produce, giving an account of the different states they pass through, the depredations they commit, and recipes for their destruction, including the recipes of various authors, with remarks on their utility; also, a few hints on the causes and treatment of mildew and canker on fruit trees and cucumbers, &c. &c. &c.