PREFACE 



Eliot Coit and Mr. Leon D. Batchelor — have 

 been of great assistance to me. 



I also desire to extend my thanks to Dr. H. 

 H. Whetzel for permission to reprint his Bulle- 

 tin on the Diseases of the Peony. 



Alice Harding 



Burnley Farm 

 February, 1917 



