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As far as possible, well-known experts and
authorities are consulted on every point. As a natural
consequence, the book is growing, like the plants to which it
relates. It cannot be written "offhand" or finished "on time" to
suit any one except Dame Nature, who, being feminine, is often
inscrutable and apparently capricious. The experience of one
season is often reversed in the next, and the guide in gardening
of whom I am most afraid is the man who is always sure he is
right. It was my privilege to have the late Mr. Charles Downing as
one of my teachers, and well do I remember how that honest,
sagacious, yet docile student of nature would "put on the brakes"
when I was passing too rapidly to conclusions. It has always been
one of my most cherished purposes to interest people in the
cultivation of the soil and rural life. My effort is to "boil
down" information to the simplest and most practical form. Last
spring, hundreds of varieties of vegetables and small fruits were
planted. A carefully written record is being kept from the time of
planting until the crop is gathered.


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