

FOREWORD 



NOWADAYS many people are cultivating an allotment 

 or a vegetable garden for the first time, and any practi- 

 cal assistance that can be given to them should be really 

 useful in saving them from unnecessary expense and in 

 enabling them to grow enough garden produce to keep 

 themselves and their families. As our work has for 

 many years brought us daily in touch with the best 

 methods of cultivation of vegetables, it seemed possible 

 that our past experience might be of value to those who 

 are beginners, and even to many accustomed to the 

 pleasure of gardening. In this little book only those 

 things will be recommended which our own experience 

 has proved to be satisfactory, no operation will be 

 described- which it"- is &()+ i: c'm practice to perform, and 

 we shall endeavour to point 'out pitfalls into which the 

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