The Practical Garden-Book / Containing the Simplest Directions for the Growing of the Commonest Things about the House and Garden

The Garden-Craft Series Edited by L. H. Bailey
THE PRACTICAL GARDEN-BOOK
CONTAINING THE SIMPLEST DIRECTIONS FOR THE GROWING OF THE COMMONEST THINGS ABOUT THE HOUSE AND GARDEN
BY C. E. HUNN AND L. H. BAILEY
THIRD EDITION
New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd. 1903 All rights reserved
Copyright, 1900 By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Set up and electrotyped March, 1900 Reprinted February, 1901, and June, 1903
Mount Pleasant Press J. Horace McFarland Company Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Like the love of music, books and pictures, the love of gardens comes with culture and leisure and with the ripening of the home life. The love of gardens, as of every other beautiful and refining thing, must increase to the end of time. More and more must the sympathies enlarge. There must be more points of contact with the world. Life ever becomes richer. Gardening is more than the growing of plants: it is the expression of desire.
As there must be many gardeners, so there must be many books. There must be books for different persons and different ideals. The garden made by one’s own hands is always the best garden, because it is a part of oneself. A garden made by another may interest, but it is another person’s individuality. A poor garden of one’s own is better than a good garden in which one may not dig. Many a poor soul has more help in a plant in the window than another has in a plantation made by a gardener.