18 GARDENING FOR THE SOUTH. 



The State Experiment Stations have been in existence 

 only twelve years, and yet in that short time the re- 

 searches made by the scientific staff have introduced 

 new methods of planting and cultivating which the 

 gardeners have found superior to those in practice before 

 the establishment of these stations. The hundreds of 

 bulletins treating of every subject relating to plant 

 growth and animal economy are in growing demand, and 

 they are being read by thousands of people interested in 

 the farm and the garden who uttered anything else but 

 a kind word in behalf of the stations when Congress 

 made the appropriation for their maintenance in 1887. 



The foregoing argument in defence of the position that 

 science has rendered incalculable service to the gardener 

 is sufficient justification for the reappearance of this book, 

 and the hope is entertained that the work will receive a 

 hearty welcome among those for whom it was written. 



