VI THE PRACTICAL GARDEN -BOOK 



places. These things are never old. Many 

 times I have noted how intently an audience of 

 plant -lovers will listen to the most commonplace 

 details respecting the cultivation of plants with 

 which they have been always familiar. There 

 was nothing new in what they heard ; but they 

 liked to have the old story told over again, and 

 every detail called up a memory. 



The same questions are asked every year, and 

 they always will be asked, the questions about 

 the simplest garden operations. Upon this de- 

 sire for commonplace advice the horticultural 

 journals live. A journal which publishes only 

 things that are new would find little support. 

 Some of these common questions I have tried to 

 answer in this little book. I wish them answered 

 in the simple and direct phrase of the gardener. 

 Therefore I asked my friend C. E. Hunn, gar- 

 dener to the Horticultural Department of Cornell 

 University, who lives with plants, to w r rite ad- 

 vice for one who would make a garden ; and 

 this he did in a summer vacation. These notes, 

 edited and amplified, now make this book. 



L. H. BAILEY. 



HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT, 



CORNELL UNIVERSITY. 

 ITHACA, N. Y., February 22, 1900. 



