I am glad to acknowledge my thanks to Mr. N. R. Graves of Rochester, N. Y., and Prof. R. L. Watts of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural College, for the photographic illustrations, and to Mr. B. F Williamson, the Orange Judd Co.'s artist, for the pen and ink drawings which add so much to the value, attractiveness and interest of these pages. If this book shall instill or awaken in its readers the wholesome though cupboard love that the culi nary herbs deserve both as permanent residents of the garden and as masters of the kitchen, it will have accomplished the object for which it was written.