PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. 



It is now seven years since I wrote " Gardening for 

 Profit/' and, although it has met with a reception that 

 has been exceedingly flattering, I have ever since felt that 

 it was too hurriedly done, and far from complete. The 

 suggestions and queries made to me by some of the many 

 thousands of its readers, have been the means of develop- 

 ing many new ideas and plans for better cultivation, which 

 I have the pleasure to embody in this edition, A new 

 edition of a work of this kind becomes necessary every 

 few years, to enable it to keep pace with the improvement 

 in varieties, as well as in modes of culture. In the pres- 

 ent edition, the part of the work treating of varieties has 

 been carefully revised, and we believe the kinds described 

 to be, as a whole, the best in their respective classes this 

 day in use, either for private or commercial purposes. It 

 is gratifying to know, by letters from every section of the 

 country, that the publication of this work has been the 

 means of helping to success thousands of inexperienced 

 cultivators of the soil, of both classes those " Gardening 

 for Pleasure," as well as those " Gardening for Profit." 

 It is true that some that have been induced to engage in 

 the business by reading my book have failed. Such must 

 ever be the case less or more in every business ; but I 

 have gocd reason to believe that the percentage of fail- 

 ures in gardening is less than that in almost any other 



business. 



PETEK HENDERSON. 

 Jersey City Heights, N. J., 



January, 1874. 



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