Excerpt from Contributions to Horticultural Literature: Being a Selection of Articles Written for Gardening Periodicals, and Papers Read Before Various Societies, From 1843 to 1892
In publishing these Contributions to Horticultural Literature it seems hardly desirable that everything I have written over the last fifty years should be included. I began writing at a very early age in response to an invitation from the late Mr J. C. Loudon, during his brief Directorship of "The Gardeners' Gazette." Copies of the articles written in early life were rarely kept, and it would be too much to expect that the memory should recall trifles often written on the spur of the moment and as quickly forgotten. Moreover, some contributions were of a merely transitory interest.
Of the articles selected, some contain lists of varieties of cultivated plants and flowers which were the best of that date, but which are now superseded by fashion or by the improvement of races by cultivation and selection.
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