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have confirmed observations of my own and 

 even those with whom I have, in the mind's 

 way, held dispute, still linger that I may do 

 battle with them, and thus renew confidence 

 in my own reputed prowess ! 



Perhaps some impatient garden-maker will 

 shrug shoulder at the things I find in a little 

 garden. Let him snatch at lettuces, confound 

 grubs, bully cabbages and drive potatoes to 

 his cellar with the lash of a hardened prac- 

 ticahty that never gets above the stomach! 

 For him this Uttle book is notl You, Dear 

 Garden-Lover, you I count upon, for you too, 

 I know will be thinking of the birds and the 

 flowers even while arranging your radish seeds 

 in orderly rows. And I shall be gratefully 

 appreciative to you, as I am to those who have 

 permitted me to draw upon the essays, of 

 which I have already told you, that I might 

 plan for you this little book. 



Acknowledgments are due Mr. Charles Al- 

 len Munn, Messrs. Munn and Company, Inc. 

 (pubhshers of American Homes and Gardens 

 during the editorship of the author), Messrs. 

 Conde Nast and Company, Inc. (publishers 

 of House ^ Garden, of which the author was 



