PREFACE. 



In presenting this little volume to my brother 

 Horticulturists and Orchardists I shall make no 

 apologies, neither shall I make any great claim 

 especially to literary merit. The work is not pre- 

 pared to show how much the author knows, for the 

 wisest of us know but little, but for the sole pur- 

 pose of giving such careful, practical information 

 as the author in his earlier experiences stood so 

 much in need of, and for which he has frequently 

 spent on a single trivial matter, many times more 

 than the cost of this volume entire. 



This work will, as its name implies, be restricted 

 to the "Northwest." There are very many and 

 very excellent works upon Horticulture, but, with 

 one exception, none have been restricted to any 

 particular locality. The exception named is 

 "Warder's American Pomology." This is a most 

 valuable work, and will, while there remain upon 

 the earth lovers of trees, plants, flowers and fruit, 

 be an indispensable text book. But, although il 

 purports to be restricted and dedicated to the North- 

 west, Dr. Warder lived in Cincinnati, Ohio, and 

 this locality was, at the time the book was written, 

 pretty well Northwest. But the "Northwest" o) 

 to-day is a very different territory, with very differ 

 ent wants, which must be met with very different 



