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PREFACE 



The favourable reception of Wood and Garden, pub- 

 lished a year ago, has proved that there are many 

 who are willing to receive such suggestions as my 

 many years of work as a practical amateur have 

 enabled me to make. It has further encouraged me 

 to put together in the present volume some more 

 notes and reflections, for the most part also on garden 

 matters, though this time grouped with allied home 

 subjects. 



Tbe interest which has been aroused in readers of 

 my former book has been very gratifying, and I hope 

 that the present one may succeed in inducing others 

 to work out for themselves some such results as in 

 some cases I have been fortunate enough to obtain. 



In thus again offering my suggestions to the 

 public, it is but just to myself to say that, with my 

 very limited reserve of strength, it required some 

 resolution to face the very real fatigue involved in the 

 execution of my task. 



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