. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. yi is attended, studies. OW THAT THE CYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN HORTICULTURE IS completed, it is due the reader that some information be given him of the methods by which it has been made and of the resources that have been at command. It is due to the Editor that he be allowed to state his own point of view in res
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. yi is attended, studies. OW THAT THE CYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN HORTICULTURE IS completed, it is due the reader that some information be given him of the methods by which it has been made and of the resources that have been at command. It is due to the Editor that he be allowed to state his own point of view in respect to the meaning of the work. These i-emarks are made in no feeling of personal pride, for the writer IS keenly aware of the many shortcomings of the book; but they may acquaint the reader with some of the difficulties with which such work and they may be suggestive to those who may desire to prosecute similar RETROSPECT /. rilE PROJECT The most difficult part of the making of a cyclopedia is to project it. Its scope aud point of view must be determined before a stroke of actual work is done. This much done, the remainder is labor rather than difficulty. The lay-out of the enter- prise cannot be made in a day. It is a matter of slow growth. One must have a mental picture of the entire field and must calculate the resources. The plan once perfected, it remains only to work out detail after detail, taking up the tasks as they come, not earing nor even daring to look forward to the work that piles mountain high farther down the alphabet. So far as the Cyclopedia of American Horticultui-e is concerned, the Editor had resolved and reviewed the enterprise for more than ten years. The first suggestion was a vague idea that a comprehensive work was needed. There were several hundred special works on American horticulture. Some subjects were well worked; others were untouched. There was no means of detei-mining the extent of our wealth in cultivated plants. There were no suggestions,
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