WHY? 



WHY another book on gardening? You 

 might as well ask, "Why write a historic 

 novel when there are so many histories giving all 

 the facts?" There are plenty of garden books 

 giving all the facts — for reference. But this 

 book is for consecutive reading. The impor- 

 tant facts are here, too, but sugar-coated with 

 wise and witty remarks and spiced with anec- 

 dotes and other things that suggest the per- 

 fumed atmosphere of the garden and appeal to 

 the garden maniac. 



The world's most famous gardener, Luther 

 Burbank, wrote to the author of this book that 

 its chapters are, in his opinion, *'the best that 

 have so far been written on garden subjects. 

 You get at the facts in such a pleasing, human 

 way that they are irresistible. Your articles 

 suggest to me the difference between living, 

 moving, growing plant life and the dead, dry, 

 flat specimens which one sees in herbariums.'* 



