INTRODUCTION. 



THE demand for special information in a condensed form, on 

 most of the subjects embraced in this work, by hundreds of our 

 patrons each season, is the chief reason for its publication. For 

 example, an inexperienced grower of Cabbages, Celery, or Onions, 

 wishes for information about methods of getting the best crops; 

 another is about to form a Strawberry bed, a lawn, or construct a 

 green-house, and he asks the benefit of my veteran experience. 

 No reply by letter on such subjects can be very satisfactory, and 

 hence the necessity of brief printed instructions, which, I trust, 

 have been as clearly given as the limited space would admit. 



Such, however, as require a more elaborate treatise on the 

 general subject I beg to refer, if full information is wanted for 

 Market Gardening, to my book, " GARDENING FOR PROFIT;" if 

 for Commercial Floriculture, to " PRACTICAL FLORICULTURE;" 

 if for reference to Nomenclature and History and Description of 

 Plants, to the "llAND-BooK OF PLANTS ;" and if for General 

 Gardening for Amateurs, to "GARDENING FOR PLEASURE." 



PETER HENDERSON. 



JERSEY CITY HEIGHTS, N. J., 

 Jan. i, 1884. 



