PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. 



fHE author's reasons for publishing a second 

 edition are several : 



1. The first edition of more than two thousand 

 copies is about exhausted, while orders for the 

 work are most active ; so that, to meet the demand 

 for information on the subject of orange-growing, 

 a new issue would be necessary even if there were 

 no need for emendations and enlargement. 



2. A longer experience and continued observa- 

 tion now enable the author to write with more con- 

 fidence on certain points left in doubt in the former 

 edition, as well as to give new matter in almost 

 every chapter. 



3. Hundreds of letters have been received, mak- 

 ing inquiry concerning matters not noticed in the 

 first publication, also asking for fuller information 

 on subjects briefly mentioned. To give the in- 

 formation desired, and to extend it to others who 

 doubtless would have asked similar questions had 

 they not been restrained by a thought of the trou- 

 ble and expense necessary to answer each individual 



