Most things, in the course of development, change from the simple to the complex. The art of gardening has in many ways been an exception to the rule. The methods of culture used for many crops are more simple than those in vogue a generation ago.
The last twenty years has seen also a tremendous advance in the varieties of vegetables, and the strange thing is that in many instances the new and better sorts are more easily and quickly grown than those they have replaced. The newer sorts are not only larger and better, but hardier and earlier; and the new forms have made them more generally available.
Knowledge on the subject of gardening is also more widely diffused than ever before, and the science of photography, videos, internet etc., has helped wonderfully in telling the novice how to do things. It has also lent an impetus and furnished an inspiration which words alone could never have done. If one were to attempt to read all the gardening instructions and suggestions being published lately, he would have no time left to practice gardening at all.
Q: Why then, the reader may ask at this point, another garden guide or book?
It is a pertinent question, and it is right that an answer be expected in advance. The reason is this: while there are many garden books on the market, most of them pay more attention to the "content" than to the form in which it is laid before the prospective gardener. The material is often presented as an accumulation of detail, instead of by a systematic and constructive plan which will take the reader step by step through the work to be done, and make clear constantly both the principles and the practice of garden making and management, and at the same time avoid every digression unnecessary from the practical point of view. Some other guides or books again, are either so elementary as to be of little use where gardening is done without gloves, or too elaborate, however accurate and worthy in other respects, for an every-day working manual. We feel, therefore, that there is a distinct field for the present guide.
The more familiar you can make yourself, both in theory and in practice, with all the multitude of operations which modern gardening involves, the greater success you will attain.
~ George Bernard Shaw
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