PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION 



During the years of the War, vegetable growing received a decided 

 stimulus, and in preparing a new edition of " The VEGETABLE 

 Garden " it has been thought advisable to include the new 

 material in the form of an Addendum, to which references will be 

 found in the form of footnotes in the body of the work. 



A list of the newer varieties of our well-known vegetables — 

 Peas, Potatoes, Cabbage, etc., is given with notes on their 

 cultivation. 



Descriptions of some really distinct new vegetables, as the 

 White Sunroot (Jerusalem Artichoke), Daw's Champion Rhubarb, 

 etc., have been added. In the case of Onions, no mention was 

 made in the earlier edition of the handsome bulbs that are now to 

 be seen at vegetable exhibitions during the autumn. How to raise 

 and grow these form the subject of one of the added paragraphs ; 

 while the various diseases that attack vegetables and their remedy 

 have also been dealt with. These include the terrible scourge, 

 the wart-disease of Potatoes. As it has been proved that some 

 varieties of Potatoes are immune fj-om wart disease when grown 

 on infected soil, the names of the sorts that, after extended trial, 

 can be depended on to remain immune have been given. The 

 growing of winter Tomatoes has also received attention. 



W. P. T. 



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