2019 Acknowledgements

The Publisher would like to extend great gratitude to University of Minnesota researchers and librarians, past and present, who made this ebook possible; James Luby and Nick Howard of the Department of Horticultural Science in the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences; Julie Kelly, Shannon Farrell, Kathy Allen, and Kristen Mastel of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Sciences Department in the University Libraries. A special thank you to researchers at Seed Savers Exchange in Decorah, Iowa for their interest in seeing this 19th century book become a 21st century ebook.

The scan of the original 1897 book was made possible by the Strategic Digitization Program through the University of Minnesota Libraries Digital Library Services.