PREFACE 10 



use your judgment and common sense, in one 

 season you will be able to teach most of those 

 whom you now have to hire as expert Gardeners 

 at Three Dollars a Day. 



If anybody sneers at your gardening as being 

 "book farming," let him sneer; a fool never 

 understands what a wise man is doing: if he 

 did, he would do it himself. You have here the 

 plain, simple, practical facts without scientific 

 terms — just the ordinary garden talk. There 

 are plenty of things you wUl not find in this 

 book. You won't find analyses of fertihzers, 

 nor how to grow " pomatoes," or anything else 

 that won't seU when you have grown it. Nor 

 will you find fairy stories of poultry profits that 

 make the goose's golden eggs look like thirty 

 cents. There is a use for all that sort of thing — 

 it arouses interest and stimulates the imagina- 

 tion. But you will probably be content to be 

 a good, practical, every-day gardener who can 

 make things grow and knows what to do with 

 them after they have grown. 



Some critics, who will not read this book, 

 will sagely remark that such books as Mr. Hall's 

 are dangerous, because they induce inexperi- 

 enced persons to sell out and lose their money 

 trying to get Liberty on Three Acres or a Living 

 from a Little Land. To repeat for such people 



