FOREWORD 



E. Lillie, of Minneapolis, Minn.; Miss Emilie 

 Yunker, Woman's Outdoor Art League of Louis- 

 ville, Ky. ; Miss Stella Nathan, Supervisor of School 

 Gardens for the Board of Education, Philadelphia, 

 Pa.; Mr. John L. Randall, of the Pittsburgh Play- 

 ground Association; Professor Otis W. Caldwell, of 

 Chicago University, Chicago, 111., and Professor 

 Benjamin Marshall Davis, of Miami University. 



This list, brief as it is, would be incomplete 

 were no mention made of indebtedness to 

 Doctor James W. Robertson and the staff of 

 Macdonald College, Ste. Annede Bellevue, Quebec; 

 to Professor S. D. McCready, and Mr. E. A. 

 Howes, of Guelph, Ontario. 



For the critical Veading of the chapter on 

 "Weeds" 1 am indebted to Professor Alexander 

 W. Evans, of Yale University; for chapters con- 

 cerning soil, planting, etc., to Mr. R. F. Powell, 

 Superintendent of City Farming, in Buffalo, N. Y.; 

 and for reading the manuscript as a whole, to Mr. 

 Edward Mahoney and Mr. Stanley H. Rood. 



To Messrs. Doubleday, Page and Company 

 and The Macmillan Company, to the editors of 

 Suburban Life, the National Association of Audu- 

 bon Societies and the National Cash Register Com- 

 pany of Dayton, Ohio, and to James Vick's Sons, 

 Rochester, New York, acknowledgment is made 

 for the use of excerpts, lists, and photographs. 



M. Louise Greene. 



New Haven, Connecticut, 

 March. i()io. 



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