FOREWORD 



make use of. For the benefit of such persons I 

 have tried to give clear and definite instructions 

 that will enable them to work intelligently. I 

 have written from personal experience in the 

 various phases of gardening upon which I have 

 touched in this book. I am quite confident that 

 the information given will stand the test of most 

 thorough trial. What I have done with the 

 various plants I speak of, others can do if they 

 set about it in the right way, and with the deter- 

 mination of succeeding. The will will find the 

 way to success. I would not be understood as 

 intending to convey the impression that I con- 

 sider my way as the way. By no means. Others 

 have accomplished the same results by different 

 methods. I simply tell what I have done, and 

 how I have done it, and leave it to the home- 

 maker to be governed by the results of my experi- 

 ence or that of others who have worked toward 

 the same end. We may differ in methods, but 

 the outcome is, in most instances, the same. I 

 have written from the standpoint of the amateur, 

 for other amateurs who would make the improve- 

 ment of the home-grounds a pleasure and a 

 means of relaxation rather than a source of 

 profit in a financial sense, believing that what I 

 have to say will commend itself to the non-pro- 



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