PREFACE 



/ TT % HE prime object of Making Horticulture Pay 

 ■*■ is not to teach the specialist how to make his 

 specialty profitable ; he knows that already. Nor is 

 the principal aim to teach mere money making; 

 that has long been over-emphasized on every hand, 

 with the result that people are so attracted by the 

 glitter of gold that they lose sight of the really 

 profitable features of the thing in hand, whether 

 that be gardening, orcharding, or general business. 



To make horticulture pay in the largest sense is 

 to realize and establish an improved mode of liv- 

 ing, a better appreciation of what is good in life, a 

 deeper sympathy and understanding of the universe 

 as typified by cultivated plants. Hence the dom- 

 inant idea of this book is to encourage the average 

 farmer and householder to emancipate himself and 

 his family at least a little from the routine still too 

 common in farm living, to make some of the barren 

 spots fruitful, to eliminate some of the drudgeries 

 (work for wage is drudgery, but work for better 

 living is play), and by example rather than precept 

 to spread the good news that the men and women 

 whose farms include orchards and gardens are more 

 than landlords and landladies of dirty acres: they 

 are the real lords and ladies of the land. 



In this aim the editor has striven in the follow- 

 ing pages to present experiences of actual farmers 



