. Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit. Gardening; Vegetable gardening. PREFACE N reality a preface is rather a queer thing, because it's a "fore- word" which is written last! So, it seems, I am now to have the last word. To begin, I feel espe- cially indebted to R. L. Watts for several extracts from his ex- cellent Pennsylvania Bulletin No. 147; to W. N. Hutt, author of Maryland Bulletin No. 116; and to the authors of various other bulle- tins, books and catalogs whose writings have given me occasional lifts over rough places. My thanks go
. Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit. Gardening; Vegetable gardening. PREFACE N reality a preface is rather a queer thing, because it's a "fore- word" which is written last! So, it seems, I am now to have the last word. To begin, I feel espe- cially indebted to R. L. Watts for several extracts from his ex- cellent Pennsylvania Bulletin No. 147; to W. N. Hutt, author of Maryland Bulletin No. 116; and to the authors of various other bulle- tins, books and catalogs whose writings have given me occasional lifts over rough places. My thanks go also to various friends and correspondents, and to a few well-known implement manufacturers, who kindly loaned me several photographs. Most of the pictures in the book, however, were especially made for it by expert photographers and engravers who were carefully instructed regarding the practical details of each picture. Now just a few hints about the final problem of the average gardener—the selling end of the busi- ness : Don't ship to every strange commission house that solicits your consignment. Get a good solid house and stick to it. Or sell direct to storekeepers; or join or form a co-operative shipping and selling association; or work up a list of retail customers of your own. As an aid to the latter plan, the Long Island Agronomist, Medford, L. I., N. Y., has evolved a shipping package which it calls a "home ; It measures twenty-four inches long, fourteen inches wide, ten inches deep, and weighs about thirty pounds when filled. It contains six baskets holding about. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Biggle, Jacob. Philadelphia, W. Atkinson Co. , 1912
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