PREFACE. 



Farm, DeWitt Clinton Park; Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station of the University of Minnesota, 

 for cuts of grafting, cuttings and seed testing; 

 Mrs. Elizabeth Rafter, for illustrations of Chil- 

 dren's Home Gardening, and an experiment gar- 

 den, Washington, D. C. ; Peter Henderson & Co., 

 New York, for privilege of photographing tools ; 

 Mr. John H. Patterson for views and data of the 

 National Cash Register garden ; Miss Elizabeth 

 Seward Hill, for photographs and assistance in 

 the Boys' Garden, Groton, Mass.; Mr. J. Bolt- 

 man, New York, for the photograph of A Socio- 

 logical Problem. 



The author is indebted to Mr. E. W. Haines, 

 President of the Home Gardening Association 

 of Cleveland, Ohio, for photographs and reports 

 of work done in Cleveland; to Park and Ceme- 

 tery for privilege of reprinting the chapter, 

 "Improvement of School Grounds." 



^ ,^^, Louise Klein Milleb. 



New York, 1904. 



