FOREWORD 



cut to success. To such this book will make a 

 strong appeal, for I feel confident it will help 

 them to achieve success in gardening operations 

 that are new to them if they follow the instruc- 

 tion to be found in its pages. I have not 

 attempted to tell all about gardening, for there 

 is much about it that I have yet to learn. I ex- 

 pect to keep on learning as long as I live, for 

 there is always more and more for us to find out 

 about it. That's one of its charms. But I have 

 sought to impart the fundamental principles of 

 it as I have arrived at a knowledge of them, from 

 many years of labor among trees, and shrubs, and 

 flowers — a labor of love — and it is with a sincere 

 hope that I have not failed in my purpose that 

 I give this book to 



The Home-Maker and the Garden-Lover. 



The Author. 



