Foreword

The most thrilling pursuit in amateur horticulture today is certainly greenhouse gardening. It is only recently that modern technological developments have made the small greenhouse a practical reality for the average gardener. Now for the first time, almost anyone can have the facilities for that complete control of plant growth formerly enjoyed only by the wealthy hobbyist or the professional grower.

In the greenhouse, the gardener is truly master of all he surveys, for he can choose his plants, his soils, and his climate! Not only that—but he can also spend his leisure living in this Garden of Eden, and, if he wishes, turn such leisure time into a profit-making sideline.

A hobby is always a wonderful thing for any individual, but a hobby that produces a profit is something many of us dream about. Greenhouse growing can fulfill this dream—and this book by Peggie Schulz tells you just how to go about it. A visit to her own attractive money-maker is proof of her great practi­cality and excellent results.

In this book, I find the answers to so many of the everyday problems that professional horticulturists usually overlook in their writings. Yet it is these details and their enthusiastic appli­cation, that make the difference between the apparently gifted individual we refer to as having a green thumb and his oppo­site, the one who "just can't seem to make anything grow."

With Peggie Schulz as guide, anyone can develop a green thumb, and make his learning worthwhile, too. Like a friendly voice at your side, she guides you every step of the way from seed packet or cutting to a nice pile of money in the till.

There are, indeed, great pleasures in store for you!

Los Angeles, Calif.Norman A. Morris

April, 1959      Director, National Landscape Institute

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