PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. 
The increasing demand for the “Handbook of Horticulture and 
Viticulture of Western Australia,” and the fresh stimulus given to 
land settlement under the scheme of the Repatriation of Returned 
Soldiers, have made it desirable for the Department of -A\gricul- 
ture to bring out a new edition. 
The subject matter dealt with in the first two editions has im 
the third been carefully revised, and much additional information 
included. 
In collating the mass of information which will be found 
erouped within the several chapters of this Handbook I have, as 
far as possible, acknowledged the sources whence that information 
was derived; and the value of those sources, together with the 
personal experience I have been able to gain in questions dealt 
with in the following pages, will, I hope, be of some benefit to 
those who may consult this book. 
A. DESPEISSIS, M.R.A.C. 
Department of Agriculture, 
Perth, W.A., 10th February, 1921. 
