This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...of course, you do truck gardening for a living, which alters the case. It was because I practiced the methods of intensive gardening that I was insured the worst year for gardening (in Maine) I have ever known. In putting in the Bantam corn, for instance, I dug for each hill a hole a foot deep and wide, in which I ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...of course, you do truck gardening for a living, which alters the case. It was because I practiced the methods of intensive gardening that I was insured the worst year for gardening (in Maine) I have ever known. In putting in the Bantam corn, for instance, I dug for each hill a hole a foot deep and wide, in which I mixed a little pulverized sheep manure and bone meal (wood ashes do not seem to help corn) with the (previously manured) soil. Then, with my finger, I made seven little holes for seven kernels of corn which had soaked in water overnight. Then I dug down with my trowel for some moist soil and put it over the kernels, after which, with my foot or the flat end of the hoe I firmed the soil. Then I wet the "hill" thoroughly (usually it is called a hill, though hilling is no longer practiced by up-to-date corn growers) and finally I hoed an inch of dry soil over the whole to form a dust mulch to keep in the moisture. As all of the seven kernels sprouted, three were pulled out when they were six inches high, the strongest being left. MAKE INTENSIVE GARDENING COMPULSORY! It was slow work, no doubt--but I got my corn; I was insured against total loss. In a favorable season most of my painstaking work would have been superfluous; but don't you insure your house, though you feel sure it won't burn up? That season there were few families in this neighborhood whose corn didn't literally burn up from the sun's heat. It was pitiable to see it curl up its leaves (plants know a thing or two) so as to have less surface exposed to the desiccating sun, unfurling again when the grateful coolness of the night and its dew came. If that summer was the least favorable for gardening I have ever known, I remember one summer in this neighborhood which was simply id...
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Fair. 270 pages including index. Frontis is black and white plate of author with Luther Burbank, John Burroughs and Edith Simonds. Unmarked. "There are plenty of garden books giving all the facts-for reference...This book is for consecutive reading. The important facts are here, too, but sugar-coated with wise and witty remarks and spiced with anecdotes and other things that suggest the perfuned atmosphere of the gardedn and appeal to the garden maniac...The world's most famous gardener, Luther Burbank, wrote to the author of this book that its chapters are, in his opinion, "The best that have so far been written on garden subjects. You get the facts in such a pleasing, human way that they are irresistible."-from page xiii. Chapters include: Educated Strawberries and Burbank Plums; Commercial Value of Burbank's Creations; Japanese Burbanks and Morning-Glories; Must We Raise Our Own Fruits Too? ; Do Apples Keep the Doctor Away? ; Why Not Grow Papaws, America's Most Delicious Fruit? ; The Retired Rich Need Not Die; The Joys of Creative Gardening. Above-average wear to exterior with lettering nearly gone from spine. Binding intact.; 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Finck, Henry T. Gardening with Brains-Fifty Years' Experiences of a Horticultural Epicure 270 pages including index. Frontis is black and white plate of author with Luther Burbank, John Burroughs and Edith Simonds. Unmarked. "There are plenty of ga.
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