are expressed here to all those who have given me permission to make use of original designs, sketches, planting plans, and research material for inclusion in this book. My thanks especially to Mr. J. A. Martin, Associate Horticulturist of Clemson Agricultural College; to Mrs. Philip W. Foster of Falls Village, Connecticut; to Mrs. Frances R. Williams of Winchester, Massachusetts; also to Mrs. Percy Cashmore of Westport, Connecticut, for suggesting that I include the unique records of Mrs. Williams research; and to Mrs. Oliver B. Capen of Bedford, New York, for her helpful co-operation with the member-units of The Herb Society of America.
Appreciation is given to Mrs. Mortimer J. Fox of Mount Kisco, New York, and to Helen M. Whitman of Salem Center, New York, for permission to reproduce any and all parts of their original design and planting plans of The Herb Society of America The New York Units Herb Garden which is in The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York.
Also many thanks to the following Clevelanders: to Mrs. Kenneth W. Gage, of the Western Reserve Herb Society, which is a unit of The Herb Society of America, and to Mr. Arnold M. Davis , Director of The Garden Center of Greater Cleveland, for their co-operation in making it possible to include the line drawings and plans of the Wade Park Herb Garden. The original garden plan was adapted by Henry Pre , Landscape Architect, and honorary member of the Western Reserve Herb Society, from an old English garden plan shown in The Compleat Gardener, 1704. The original planting plans were prepared by Mrs. Alexander C. Brown and Mrs. Donald Gray.
The line drawings in this book of the Wade Park Herb Garden were selected and prepared from recent plans drawn by Mrs. Seth R. Cummings. All those mentioned in connection with the Wade Park Herb Garden are members of the Western Reserve Herb Society, a Unit of The Herb Society of America.
Warm appreciation is given also to Margaret S. Biggerstaff, Director of Promotion for The New York Botanical Garden. Her genuine enthusiasm was of invaluable assistance in co-operation with that of Mr. Justine V. McCarthy in securing the original herb and spice-blossom sketches of Aldo Becci of the Delano Studios, Setauket, Long Island.
Thanks are especially expressed for the sketches: twelve, of the series of twenty-four which appear on the end papers, have been especially drawn for this volume.
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