PREFACE TO NEW EDITION 



Such success of this book as seems to call for a 

 second edition is most surely due to two things: to 

 its sponsor, Miss Jekyll, through her kind preface, 

 and to the ever-growing interest in gardening in 

 America. That this interest is many times 

 greater now than seven years ago, when "The 

 Well-Considered Garden" was published, is evi- 

 dent to all who watch these things. Seedsmen 

 and nurserymen have difficulty in meeting the de- 

 mands for their wares. Periodicals dealing with 

 gardens find steady growth in distribution. Books 

 on gardening have an immense vogue. Garden 

 talk is heard on every hand. Organizations con- 

 cerned with gardening, special plant societies — all, 

 by their intense activity, bear witness to the spread 

 of this fascinating pursuit in our time. 



But many there are who have no gardens yet. 

 Let these heed this warm exhortation from the 

 charming writer of *'The Garden of Experience,'* 

 Mrs. Cran: 



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