Prefatory Remarks 



(To the First Edition) 



By the Publisher. 



A work on gardening, up to the times and fully explaining 

 all modern methods, has long been needed. Several years ago 

 I started the rough outline of a treatise on this subject, but 

 owing to my time being so largely taken up with my varied 

 business interests, I found it impossible to finish it ; and, to tell 

 the truth, I did not feel competent to handle the subject as if 

 deserved. At this stage of the proceedings my friend, Mr. T. 

 Greiner, offered to take a hand, and for a year or more he has 

 been busy writing the following pages, which I take pleasure 

 in presenting to the public as the very best and most practical 

 work ever written for the benefit of the American vegetable 

 gardener. 



I am confident it will prove the stepping-stone to successful 

 gardening for many thousands who are now unacquainted with 

 this, the noblest calling on earth ; while I know it will give many 

 profitable common-sense ideas to those who are even now high 

 up in the profession. 



In this revised edition I have little to add to the above re- 

 marks, further than that the unqualified endorsement and success 

 of this work has far exceeded both Mr. Greiner's and my own 

 highest expectations. Its cordial reception has encouraged us to 

 make the second edition up to and abreast of these progressive 

 times, and I can ask of my friends nothing more than this new 

 revised edition of" How to Make the Garden Pay" shall receive 

 as kind a reception as has been accorded the first edition of 

 this work. 



Yours very truly, 



WM. HENRY MAULE. 

 January i^, iSpj. 



