PREFACE. 



This book was prepared primarily for the School of Agri- 

 culture of the University of Minnesota, ^here it has been used 

 as a text book for four years. In this edition some changes 

 have been made to bring it up to date in the matter of methods 

 of culture and varieties recommended. The material has also 

 been re-arranged and more attention paid to the classification 

 of vegetables than in the first edition. A few other new minor 

 features have also been introduced which experience seemed to 

 show desirable. 



I wish to acknowledge the kind assistance received in the 

 preparation of this manuscript from Prof. Harry Snyder and 

 my assistant, R. S. Mackintosh. In previous editions I have 

 taken pleasure, as I do now, in acknowledging the assistance 

 which I have received in many ways from Dr. Otto Lugger and 

 Major A. G. Wilcox, and it pains me now to have to record the 

 death of both within the past year, but the memory of the many 

 pleasant associations with them will always be fresh in my mind. 



Figures numbered 52, 67, 69 and 121 are from D. Landreth & 

 Sons; 26, 27, 31, 32 and 92 are from W. Atlee Burpee; Nos. 22, 

 23, 81 and 96 are reproduced from publications of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture; No. 5 is from Bateman Manufacturing Co.; 

 Nos. 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42 and 43 were loaned by Dr. 

 Lugger; Nos. 58, 61, 63, 65, 66, 106, 108, 112, 119, 120 and 122 

 from various sources. All other figures are original. 



SAMUEL B. GREEN. 

 St. Anthony Park, Minn., March 1, 1905. 



Note — In this edition will be found questions adapted to stiidonts of 

 vegetable gardening thus making the work better suited to class-room 

 use. 



