vi INTRODUCTION 



felt the need of some pleasing yet practical reader which 

 while providing everyday work should be at the same time 

 so constructed as to be in kindly sympathy and accord with 

 the child's mind. The three prominent educators of long 

 experience who have collaborated with the publishers of 

 this work, while quite faithfully delineating the methods 

 employed in producing newer and far more valuable plants, 

 trees, fruits, and flowers, have confined themselves strictly 

 to the facts, and have described the methods in a most 

 pleasing form for the child. . 



With the sincere hope that this book will help teachers 

 and pupils to admire each other in their mutual love of 

 nature, I give it my welcome, being fully assured of its 

 abundant success. 



