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EXPLAXATION
7’111s Manual is thci t,wenty-second edition of the Nursery-
Itook, re-rvritten and re-set. The Nursery-Book was first published
Carla. in 1591. A rwrision was made in 1896, as a third edition,
LVINW thca i)ook was taken over by The Macmillan Co. Since then
it TV ~NYW reprinted frequently. For nearly thirty years the book
1~5 t~lljoJ*ctl the confidence of the public even though in the later
jrti;1rs it 1~3~ beaded re\ision. The author can hardly expect it
to (*ontinncb its carcttr for imother cluart,ey-century ; yet he is glad
t0 Iu\*c the opportunity to make it new again.
‘I’Iw INW~ cltbnls oni). with propagation and nursery practice.
‘1’11~ tenlpt;ition is strong to include certain related subjects, but
tl~ \vork will proi)al)ly he useful in proportion as it confines itself
it) its single purpose. Therefore t.he reader must not. expect to
find c?c:icrig w tions of rulti\Tt-ltion, transplanting, the general handling
of I)iants. prunivlg, seed-breeding, or pollination ; nor has it seemed
list, in a prac*tical munual, to admit discussions of the interesting
scientific qu~~stions more or less related to the subject.
\‘1’l~n rrqv successor shall revise this book or make a new one,
it is to 1~ expected that he will have the results of sufficient matured
inx*estig;itions to enable him to pronounce with confidence on
man)- of thr practices that now rest only on empirical and t.radi-
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ITtM’a,
Irnl!its.
N.l’.
RIq 1, 1919.
L. ti. BAILEY.