The Garden Under Glass

INTRODUCTION xv practical greenhouse. I hope the veidict of my readers will be that this is a practical book on the practical greenhouse. A few words on the plan which I have adopted : For the purpose of clear treatment and to avoid repetition, I have found it best to deal separately with the different sections. Treating firstly of the constructive portion, I have passed °n to cultural matters in the three main divisions of fruit, flowers and vegetables. It has been found convenient, however, to give details of how to do the work in a different section. Thus, by showing how to pot and to water a plant I have avoided the necessity of repeating this for every plant. So with greenhouse pests, a section devoted to them and the remedies and preventive measures pro-vides greater clearness than if these facts were indiscrimin-ately dotted about the book. In order to make the book more practical I have in the cultural sections given fuller details for those plants which leaders are most likely to grow. Thus such flowering plants as the pelargonium, gloxinia and primula receive far more attention than anthuriums, cattleyas, and gardenias, while in the fruit line nothing is mentioned of pmes and bananas, which are seldom grown in England now. A copious calendar at the end will, I think, be appreciated. Some portions of the advice given have dlready appeared in The East Anglian Daily Times. My readers must be the final judges of the value of this