This Work claims the Attention of the Public:

1. By the comprehensiveness of its plan, by which, for the first time, every part of the subject of Gardening is brought together, and presented in one systematic whole.

2. By its being the only work which contains all the modern improvements in Gardening, foreign as well as domestic.

3. By the addition of a Kalendarial Index, by which the practical part of the work may be consulted monthly, as the operations are to be performed; and a copious General Index, by which the whole may be consulted alphabetically. Thus the work will serve as a Gardener’s Kalendar, and Gardener’s Dictionary: both, it is confidently hoped, far more complete than any hitherto presented to the public.

By means of a copious page, by condensed descriptive tables of fruits, culinary vegetables, and flowers, and by the local introduction of such illustrative engravings as greatly shorten the necessity of verbal description, this immense body of matter has been comprised in one thick volume.

CONTENTS.

CHAP. I.Page
Of the Pine Apple; its Culture in the West Indies.—Introductionto Holland.—And to England[1]
CHAP. II.
Of the varieties of the Pine Apple[6]
CHAP. III.
Foreign modes of cultivating the Pine Apple[11]
Sect.I.Culture of the Pine Apple in Holland[12]
II. in Germany[20]
III. in Russia[22]
IV. in France[24]
V. in Italy[26]
VI. in other parts of Europe[29]
CHAP. IV.
Of the different modes of cultivating the Pine Apple,which have been, or are practised in Britain bypractical Gardeners[30]
Sect.I.Mode of cultivating the Pine Apple, byTelende, in 1719[31]
II. by Miller[34]
III. by Justice[40]
IV. by Giles[43]
V. by Taylor[45]
VI. by Speechly[49]
VII. by M’Phail[67]
VIII. by Nicol[88]
IX. by Griffin[104]
X. by Baldwin[110]
XI. by Abercrombie[120]
XII. by Andrews[125]
XIII. by Gunter[129]
XIV. by Oldacre[133]
XV. by Aiton[138]
CHAP. V.
Improvements recently attempted in the culture of thePine Apple[146]
Sect.I.Of the Improvements proposed by Mr.Knight[148]
II.Of other Improvements proposed[170]