Tumbledown Farm .9 Acres (give or take an acre or two)

Acknowledgments.

In the preparation of this work, I have received the cheerful cooperation of many esteemed personal friends, to whom I would here express my grateful acknowledgments.

For many valuable suggestions with regard to the cul­ture and general management of the Potato, as well as for much important information respecting nearly all of our American varieties of this vegetable, I am indebted to J. F. C. HYDE, Esq., of Newton, Mass., whose long experience in the production of seedlings, as well as in the cultivation of established kinds, will give peculiar value to this portion of the volume.

The illustrations, so excellent and truthful, are from the pencil of Mr. ISAAC SPRAGUE, of Cambridge, Mass., whose fine delineations of animal as well as vegetable life have won for him the reputation of being "the first of living artists."

I am peculiarly indebted to Rev. E. PORTER DYER, of Hingham, for much valuable advice and assistance, and cannot too fully express my obligations for the unvarying kindness and courteous manner in which repeated, and perhaps often unseasonable, requests for aid have been received and granted.

My acknowledgments are also due to Hon. JOSEPH BRECK, author of' "Book of Flowers," and late President of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society; to CHARLES M. HOVEY, Esq., editor of "The Magazine of Horticul-

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ture," and President of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society; to PHINEAS B. HOVEY, Esq., nurseryman and seedsman, of Cambridge, Mass.; and to DANIEL T. CUR­TIS, Esq., seedsman and florist, and for many years Chair­man of the Committee on Vegetables of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.

For information or other very acceptable assistance, I am also indebted to Rev. CALVIN LINCOLN, of Hingham, Mass. ; Rev. JOHN L. RUSSELL, of Salem, Mass.; JOHN A. BUT­LER, Esq., of Chelsea, Mass.; EDWARD S. RAND, Jun., Esq., of Boston; Mr. AUSTIN BRONSON, of Enfield, N. H. ; GEORGE W. PRATT, Esq., of Boston; Mr. E. HENRY GREENWOOD, of Needham, Mass.; Mr. CALVIN A. LINCOLN, of Hingham, Mass.; Dr. THOMAS M. BREWER, of Boston, Mass.; JOHN M. IVES, Esq., of Salem, Mass.; Mr. JAMES SCOTT, of Hatfield, Mass. : Mr. ALONZO CRAFTS, of Whateley, Mass.; Mr. JOHN C. HOVEY, of Cambridge, Mass.; Mr. ISAAC P. RAND, of Dorchester, Mass. ; Mr. GEORGE EVERETT, of Concord, Mass.; and Mr. CALEB BATES, of Kingston, Mass.

From a work entitled "Descriptions des Plantes Pota­geres, par VILMORIN, ANDRIEUX, et CIE., Paris;" from CHARLES MCINTOSH'S excellent "Book of the Garden;" the "Gardener's Assistant," by ROBERT THOMPSON; "Rogers's Vegetable Cultivator;" and "Lawson's Agricul­turist's Manual," --I have made liberal extracts; and lest, in the course of the volume, any omission of authority may occur where it should have been accredited, my indebtedness to the valuable publications above mentioned is here candidly confessed.