Introduction 



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in drills, six weeks before. Read the whole book 

 through carefully at your first opportunity, make 

 a list of the things you should do for your own 

 vegetable garden, and put opposite them the proper 

 dates for your own vicinity. Keep this available, 

 as a working guide, and refer to special matters as 

 you get to them. 



Do not feel discouraged that you cannot be prom- 

 ised immediate success at the start. I know from 

 personal experience and from the experience of 

 others that ''book-gardening" is a practical thing. 

 If you do your work carefully and thoroughly, you 

 may be confident that a very great measure of success 

 will reward the efforts of your first garden season. 



And I know too, that you will find it the most 

 entrancing game you ever played. 



Good luck to you ! 



