Excerpt from The American Gardener: Or a Treatise on the Situation, Soil, Fencing and Laying Out of Gardens, on the Making and Managing of Hot-Beds and Green-Houses; And on the Propagation and Cultivation of the Several Sorts of Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits, and Flowers
1. The proper uses of a Preface appear to be, to give the reader information, which may be useful, during the perusal of the work to which it is prefixed; to explain the nature and object of the work; to point out the method of the arrangement of its several parts; and, in short, to afford the means of due preparation for the task the reader is entering upon; which preparation is always a great advantage to the author as well as to the reader.
2. As to the nature of the work, it is, I hope, pretty clearly stated in the Title Page. The object evidently is to cause the art of gardening to be better understood and practised than it now is in America; and, very few persons will deny, that there is, in this case, plenty of room for improvement. America has soil and climate for surpassing those of England; and yet she is surprizingly deficient in variety as well as quality of garden products. I am not alluding to things of ornament, or appertaining to luxurious enjoyments; but, to things that are really useful, and that tend to profit and to the preservation of health, without which latter, life is not worth having. It is incredible to those, who have not had occasion to observe the fact, how large a part of the sustenance of a country-labourer's family, in England, comes out of his little garden.
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