HINTS On The Culture Of Ornamental Plants In IRELAND - PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION - THE increasing interest whicli everywhere appears about Ornamental Plants, and additional informtltiou I have obtained since I published the last , edition of this little book-now some years out of print-lead me to hope that a new edition may help many readers in enjoyment of the loveliest of Ornamental Arts. I think t, hat, at the coming Meeting of the British Association in Dublin, it may be useful to visitors, and especially to ladies, lovers of horticulture, and little aware how the various moist,, mild climates of Ireland suit different plants, native and exotic. At one of the first of their meetings which I attended, I was asked by the late Dr. Gray, of the British Museum, and a few other eminent naturalists, to write for a contemplated British Fauna that part relating to the conchology of Ireland and feel ing it riglit to decline t, his tempting invitation, I ... Ylll brought to tlieir Neeting of 1840 a little book in which in the interim I sketched about 400 varieties of our choicest shells, and noted the habitats of many of the rarest and some of one little species which I dredged h L. Strangford, and were the first that mere ever found in a living state in the kingdom, so attracted ihe attention of Professor Edmard Forbes, and 8ir William Jardine, that they, I believe with others of kindred tastes, came to Ireland to search, and were much pleased with what they found here. From that time, engrossing engagements, professional and domestic, for many years hindered me attending tlie annual meetings and now I find the subjects of female education, and remunerative employment for vornen, taking a prominent place in the consideration of enlightened philanthropists and ornarnenta1 gardening in its various branches seems to present a large field for such occupation. At page 11 G I refer to the special importance which the first Xapoleon attributed to Music, for the attention of statesmen and other leaders of the public mind and other men of great eminence have ranked a fine taste for gastronomy and culinary art amongst the most valuable endowments of philosophers. Henrion de Pensey, premier President of t, he , Gourt of Cassation, and the magistrate of whom Roger Collard said regenerated France liad most reason t, o be proud, expressed himself as follows to three lllost distinguished men of scienc . e ... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.