io How to Make the Garden Pay. 



from old-time and old-style gardening ; how the gardener can 

 elevate himself above the slave-work of former days, and make 

 his labors light and pleasant. Knowledge is power. The former 

 servant of the soil can and should make himself 



MASTER OF THE SITUATION. 



While in the following pages I shall attempt to teach the 

 whole of the art, in the aspects that have been revealed to me 

 during long years of practice, study and experiment, and propose 

 to conform these instructions with the needs of the new beginner, 

 both in kitchen and market gardening, I am quite certain that 

 even the experienced horticulturist can find new truths and 

 valuable suggestions in it. and it will pay all novice and expert 

 to look these pages over carefully. Any one of my readers 

 who thus far has remained in the old ruts, let him turn over a 

 new leaf and try the newer ways that I point out ; for gardening, 

 like life, is what you yourself make of it a paradise of pleasure 

 or a veritable sheol of drudgery. You have the decision in your 

 own hands. You may leisurely accompany your visitors through 

 the well-kept grounds that are beaming with thrifty, sparkling 

 vegetation, as your own countenance is beaming with pleasure 

 and satisfaction, and that is as free from weeds as your face is 

 free from care ; or you may crawl through the beds on hands and 

 knees, piling up stacks of weeds, with a face sour and distorted 

 in hatred of yourself and the life you are leading. My instruc- 

 tions, if faithfully followed, will insure you the former conditions, 

 and save you from the curse of the latter. 



I am not dealing with flowers in this work ; hence shall not 

 attempt to use flowery language. We have to do with plain 

 substantial things, matter-of-fact conditions, and simple truths. 

 In these pages a plain every-day farmer and gardener, not a 

 " Professor of Horticulture," speaks to plain every-day people, 

 and the language used will correspond with the condition of 

 writer and reader, plain, practical, common-sense, without useless 

 flourishes and poetic ornamentation. Let the kind reader look 

 for beauty and poetry in the garden itself. 



From these explanations I think you will readily under- 

 stand the aim and the scope of this work ; and I only hope it 

 will aid in making gardening more popular, and a more prolific 

 source of pleasure and profit to many. 



It still remains to be said that the work was composed on 

 the suggestion of Mr. Wm. Henry Maule, of Philadelphia, who 

 has undertaken its publication, and if the reader receives any 

 benefit from its perusal, he is indebted to him in the first place 

 more than even to the author. 



T. GREINER. 

 AUTUMN, 1889. 



