PREFACE. 



So far as I am aware, no book on Egyptian Gardening 

 has yet been published in English. That this little 

 work will fill up the void, I do not for a moment 

 pretend, as the subject is an extensive one, and 

 would require a much larger treatise than the simple 

 handbook I now offer to my readers. 



All that I have done is to respond to an invitation 

 to put into a more permanent form the notes that I 

 took for the course of Horticultural lectures, which 

 I delivered last winter in Ramleh. 



These notes have been revised and enlarged, and I 

 have added at the end a garden calendar of work for 

 the different months of the year. 



I have to thank many of the residents of Alexandria 

 and Ramleh for the kind interest they have shown in 

 my work, and for the practical hints they have given 

 me on Gardening matters. 



To Professor Sickenberger, of the School of Medicine, 

 Cairo, I am indebted for information concerning the 



