FOREWORD 



There is a crispness in the home grown Let- 

 tuce which the green grocer neither keeps nor 

 sells; a delicacy of flavor and an evanescent bloom 

 in the home grown Grape or Plum, which money 

 spent with the fruiterer can never buy. A fresh 

 fragrance and undrooping charm in the home 

 grown Rose, which even the most skilled florist 

 cannot preserve; and above all, there is a joy in 

 the production of our own vegetables, our own 

 fruits and our own flowers— a joy in making our 

 door-yards blossom and bear, a joy in making our 

 own soil yield, which far exceeds the profits our 

 gardens give. 



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It is the hope of the Luther Burbank Society 

 that this series of Monographs, with their simple, 

 practical instructions, will be of help, not alone 

 to those who now have kitchen-gardens and front- 

 yard flower-plots — but to those, as well, who do 

 not „yet know the allurement of the home garden, 

 thus opening up for them this great field of undi- 

 luted pleasure. 



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