A Practical Guide to the treatment of FLOWERING and OTHER ORNAMENTAL PLANTS In the House and Garden By EBEN E., REXFORD Iliustrated New York ORANGE JUDD COMPANY COPYRIGHT 1890 by JAMES VICK SEEDSMAN COPYRIGHT 1903 by ORANGE JUDD COMPANY AIMBOTLIAD Printed in the U. S. A BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION This book is a book for amateur floriculturists written by one who is in no sense a "professional." It has been written because there is a constant and increasing demand for a work that treats on flowers from the standpoint of the amateur. An extensive correspondence with flower-loving persons, all over the country, has convinced me that scientific text books are not what is wanted. What is wanted is plain, practical, easily understood information which will enable those who love flowers, but know very little about them, to grow them successfully. I have confidence enough in the book to believe that those who read it will find it easy to understand and that those who flow out its instructions will be able to grow all the plants treated in it and grow them well. It has been written from my own personal experience among flowers and not from theory. My way may not be the best way. I do not claim that. I judge it simply by its results, which have been very satisfactory to me. I do not desire to have it understood that I send out this book as a sort of shore cut to complete floricultural knowledge. It is simply intended to assist the amateur in the acquirement of such a knowledge which can only come from intelligent personal study and observation which will lead to a better acquaintance and a closer friendship with. Our Friends, the Flowers, Shiocton, Wis, January, 1903. 334471 EBEN E. REXFORD. V |