FOREWORD 
HIS is the fourth annual edition of the Gardeners 
& Florists’ Annual. That the book fills a need 
in floricultural and horticultural periodical litera- 
ture, is proven by the fact that several thousand 
copies are sold each year. 
Let us say right here that each annual edition is a new book. 
The intention is to form ultimately a reference library of 
horticultural progress throughout the years, and while 
gathering within the covers of an annual volume the facts 
and data pertaining to the year’s doings in our line of industry, 
the book is yet much more than a mere record of these 
activities — it is a book of ready reference on a thousand and 
one subjects that daily, weekly, or monthly confront the 
grower, the retailer, the seedsman, the nurseryman, the 
gardener. It has been fittingly called the “Little Brown 
Book of Facts.” 
A few of the features of outstanding value are necessarily 
repeated from year to year, but every section is revised so 
that the book can be taken authoritatively as up-to-date. 
Pages could be filled with testimonials from men of high 
standing in the craft, who have testified as to the value of the 
book to them, principally in supplying information in a handy 
form not otherwise obtainable. 
