N this fir^t number for the second year of 

 Our Garden journal, at the very outset, 

 I want to express my grateful acknowledge- 

 ment and I do so earnestly thank the many 

 subscribers who have written me such good 

 letters on the Anniversary Number. 



So far 1 have not been able to answer all of them — there are 

 so many — but to those to whom I have not already made 

 acknowledgment of my appreciation, I ask that this may 

 serve as a temporary one until my time permits doing so 

 personally 33 33 



^ To avoid the recurrence of "Union eccentricities" in the 

 printing of OUR GARDEN JOURNAL I arranged to have this 

 and the future issues printed out of New York, where I had 

 been led to believe Union conditions were safer and saner. 



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