PREFACE 



IT is commonly acknowledged that the Questions and Answers 

 columns of a gardening paper contain information that is in- 

 valuable to its readers generally. The questions are asked by 

 amateurs and answered by experts. The replies are useful 

 not only to the actual inquirers but to all amateurs, for the 

 trials and troubles of one inexperienced gardener are very 

 similar to those of another. Thus the suggestion that a care- 

 ful selection of Questions and Answers from the columns of 

 THE GARDENER would be welcomed in book form was not 

 made without good grounds. This suggestion prompted the 

 preparation of "Gardening Difficulties Solved." 



The information given in the following pages is practical 

 and to the point, and, it is hoped, will meet all ordinary 

 difficulties that confront the possessor of a garden. The 

 questions have actually been asked by amateurs, so that the 

 troubles they voice are real. Since conditions of climate 

 influence gardening work to a considerable degree, the district 

 from which each question was sent is indicated. 



H. H. T. 



January, 1910. 



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