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bulletins of the Agricultural Experiment Stations, the 

 publications of the United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture, botanical, horticultural and agricultural magazines 

 and papers and standard works on gardening. Some of 

 the illustrations have been culled, with the consent of 

 the authors, from the publications of P. J. Berckmans, 

 L. II. Bailey, G. F. Atkinson, F. V. Coville, H. N. Staines, 

 R. L. Watts, Peter Henderson, Samuel H. Humph, John- 

 son & Stokes, George L. Taber, and Vaughan Seed Com- 

 pany. To Professor F. S. Earle, biologist and horticul- 

 turist of the Alabama Experiment Station, special 

 acknowledgment is made for suggestive and valuable 

 criticisms. 



P. H. Mell. 

 Auburn Alabama, January, 1901. 



