ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



In the following pages the keynote is experience. The results 

 stated, the methods suggested, the varieties advised — all are 

 the results of actual, sincere experience. For it is by such 

 means that the uninitiated can be really assisted and given 

 practical, usable directions towards success. 



Whatever matter I have quoted has been generously offered 

 by its originator or discoverer, with the idea of helping his fellow 

 gardener. Personal experiences, individual results, original 

 ideas, have been submitted that the success that followed them 

 might be shared, not monopolized. It is in this spirit of common 

 interest, that of a member of a fraternity of tillers of the soil, 

 that I acknowledge the assistance I have received. I wish to 

 mention especially "The Vest-pocket Garden Record System," 

 devised by Mr. J. L. Kayan; and the details of coldframe 

 management supplied by Mr. George Standen. For much 

 of the material for Chapter V. on "A Year's Cycle in the 

 Garden," I am indebted. to Mr. William C. McCoUom, for his 

 articles on the seasons' work in the vegetable garden. The 

 tables in Chapter VII. on the insects and diseases of plants 

 is the work of Dr. E. Porter Felt, State Entomologist of New 

 York; and the methods of mixing spray materials in small 

 quantities were worked out by Mr. W. C. O'Kane. 



In conclusion, I acknowledge the assistance rendered by The 

 Garden Magazine, from which I have obtained numerous ideas 

 and valuable data. 



E. L. D. S. 



Garden City, N. Y., February, 191 1. 



