Wny THIS BOOK? 11 



As I have already stated, there is room for, and need of, 

 a hand-book like this for the general onion grower. But I 

 would probabl}' not have thought of writing it if my 

 friends, the publishers, had not asked me to undertake the 

 work. Then I was quite ready and willing to do so. I 

 really like to talk and write on matters that I think I 

 understand about as well as anybody, and more especially, 

 if I see a chance to tell some '^ trade secrets " to my less 

 experienced fellow gardeners. 



The result of the publishers' suggestion, and of their co- 

 operation, is the book as it now lies before the reader. 

 May it fulfill its mission, which is to diffuse a better under- 

 standing of improved methods of onion growing among 

 those willing and anxious to learn, and to aid them in 

 securing more satisfactory returns from the business than it 

 afforded them heretofore. 



T. Greiner. 



La Salle, N". V., Aulu/mt, i8g2. 



