lv SCHOOL AND HOME GARDENS 
Botanic Garden of Harvard University; also for assist- 
ance from Dr. C. G. Hopkins, Professor of Agronomy, Uni- 
versity of Ilinois; Dr. W. J. V. Osterhout, Professor of 
Botany, and B. M. Watson, Instructor in Horticulture, both 
of Harvard University; and Joseph N. Campbell, a practical 
gardener at Sanger, California. 
Among the books that have been useful to the author in 
his garden work are the following: “ The Home Vegetable 
Garden,” Rockwell; “The Woman’s Hardy Garden,” Ely ; 
“Garden-Making ” and “The Vegetable Garden,” Bailey ; 
“Experiments with Plants,” Osterhout; “How to make 
School Gardens,” Hemenway; “ Soil Fertility and Permanent 
Agriculture,” Hopkins ; “ How to plan the Home Grounds,” 
Parsons ; “ Familiar Flowers of Field and Garden,” F. Schuyler 
Mathews; “Garden Guide,” Henderson; “How to grow 
Vegetables,” French; “Trees, Shrubs, Vines, and Herbaceous 
Perennials,” Kirkegaard; “New Manual of Botany,” Gray; 
also numerous state and national government bulletins. 
Suggestions from teachers and gardeners toward the im- 
provement of subsequent editions are cordially invited. 
W. H. D. MEIER 
