A lovely book with a real gem of an illustration as the inner cover. Black and white photos throughout.

From the Foreword: “This is not a book that tells all the facts about gardening. I have written it because there may be a few folks like myself who do not undertake a hobby with all its attendant trials as a result of reading a manual, but because, in spite of solemn facts, they have somehow gotten the feeling of the pleasure to be had from it. The how’s of gardening, it seems to me, can be mastered bit by bit as needed after on has the urge to garden.”