PREFACE 



GARDENS, POULTRY, AND BEES. 



The following pages will be found to contain much valu- 

 able and important information at little cost. An examina- 

 tion of what they contain will, it is believed, not only verify the 

 truth of that remark, but also satisfy the reader that it will be 

 to him a very convenient and profitable hand-book, in which 

 he will find just the every-day facts, suggestions, experiments, 

 and instructions, needed in the planting, cultivation, and man- 

 agement of the Kitchen, Fruit, and Flower Gardens, and in 

 the keeping of Poultry and £ees. 



Were this little work in the hands of every American lad 

 and miss, in town or country, it could hardly fail of inducing 

 them to form early and correct habits of cultivating vege- 

 tables, fruits, and fiowers, and of properly and profitably 

 managing poultry and bees. 



