Acknowledgments

My sincere thanks go to Dr. John M. Fogg, Jr., Director of the Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania, for his constructive criticism of Part I and a portion of Part II. I am also grateful to Dr. Patricia Van Burgh Allison and Miss Mary O. Milton—members of Dr. Fogg's staff— for their splendid assistance. I am deeply indebted to the many men and women who answered my questionnaire, making the Reports on Evergreens from the States and from Canada a reality. Many thanks go to all those who have so liberally shared their knowledge and their time in bringing to the readers of their localities this helpful information.

I am exceedingly grateful to the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Florida, for the permission they gave me to base the Palm culture on the information given in their bulletin, "Native and Exotic Palms of Florida." This organization is an outstanding authority on this subject in the U.S.A. The Palm Society has also been most co-operative, and I send many thanks to them—particularly to Mrs. Lucita H. Wait, the Executive Secretary. Mrs. Jewel W. Templeton has very kindly contri­buted a description of the Mistic Bubble method of propagation, and I wish to express my appreciation to her. To Mrs. Walter W. Beachboard I send my warm thanks for her able editorial advice. I also send thanks to Mr. C. N. Keyser of the Bartlett Tree Experts.
I feel very grateful to Dr. Donald Wyman, author of "Shrubs and Vines for American Gardens" and "Trees for American Gardens." These out­standing books have been especially helpful to me. From the first of these two books were obtained the endpapers used in this book. Other books that have been of much assistance are "Standardized Plant Names," ed. 2, prepared for the American Joint Committee on Horticultural Nomencla­ture by its Editorial Committee, Harlan P. Kelsey and William Dayton; "Hortus Second," compiled by L. H. Bailey and Ethel Zoe Bailey; "Manual of Cultivated Trees and Shrubs," by Alfred Rehder; "What's New in Gardening," by P. P. Pirone; "Bonsai Miniature Trees," by Claude Chidamian; "The Azalea Book," by Frederic P. Lee; the "Wise Garden

Encyclopedia," "The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture," by L. H. Bailey; "Trees and Shrubs for the Southern Coastal Plain," by Brooks E. Wigginton; and "Landscape Plants for Florida Homes," by John V. Wat-kins. I am also grateful to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden for their excellent publications.

I take this opportunity to express my thanks to the various photographers for their valuable contributions for providing the illustrations. Among these are George Beamish, Anita M. E. Boiling, Gatteri of Miami, Paul E. Genereux, Jeannette Grossman, J. Horace McFarland Company, F. Arm­strong Roberts, and Mary Alice and John P. Roche.
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