Under the article Gardening, Practical, in the Encyclopaedia (Vol. IX. p. 411), there is an ample detail of the operations of horticulture, for each month of the year, in the Kitchen Garden, the Fruit Garden, and the Flower Garden. Since that article was written, however, considerable improvements have taken place; and of these we propose now to give an account. It would be difficult to treat of subjects so numerous and multifarious in a connected discourse. Instead of attempting this, we shall rather study not to omit any thing of importance, trusting that we shall thus enable the reader to form a tolerably just estimate of the present state of British Horticulture.

The simple and natural division into Kitchen, Fruit, and Flower Garden, adopted in the Encyclopaedia, shall here be adhered to.