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THE LIBRARY: RESIDENCE OF THE LATE A. J. DOWNING.

NEW YORK

LEAVITT & ALLEN.

1856.

BY

A. J. DOWNING.

EDITED, WITH A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR

BY

GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS,

AND

A LETTER TO HIS FRIENDS,

BY

FREDERIKA BREMER.

NEW YORK:

LEAVITT & ALLEN,

No. 27 DEY STREET.

1856

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by

GEORGE P. PUTNAM & CO.,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New-Xork.

JOHN F. TK JW, Printer and STEREOTYPER,

49 Ann-street.

PREFACE.

THIS posthumous volume completes the series of Mr.

Downing's works. It comprises, with one or two exceptions, all his editorial papers in the "Horticulturist." The Editor has preferred to retain their various temporary allusions, because they serve to remind the reader of the circumstances under which the articles were prepared. Mr. Downing had designed a work upon the Shade-Trees of the United States, but left no notes upon the subject.

In the preparation of the memoir, the Editor has been indebted to a sketch in the Knickerbocker Magazine, by Mrs. Monell, of Newburgh, to Mr. Wilder's eulogy before the Pomological Congress, and to an article in the "NewYork Quarterly," by Clarence Cook, Esq.

The tribute to the genius and character of Downing

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