Genre:

Preface, Drollery

Subjects:

Horticulture

    Having now stood through three winters, Hood's publication 'may therefore lay claim, by Mr Loudon's permission, to the designation of a "Hardy Annual"' (vii). 'The beautiful fronispiece I owe to the kindness and pencil of Harvey,—a name to which my blood and my book owe equal acknowledgement. One Harvey discovered my circulation, and the other will assuredly increase it' (ix–x). States that 'a Gentleman who has perused the papers relative to the Farm of the Zoological Society, assures me, on the honour of a Fellow, there is no such person as Stephen Humphreys on that establishment' (x).

See also:

CA1/4/7