Excerpt from The Practical Fruit, Flower and Vegetable Gardener's Companion: With a Calendar The small but very comprehensive work here pre sented to the American public, is the production of one who for more than thirty years was secretary of the Caledonian Horticultural Society, and who enjoyed every facility for acquiring the very best information relating to the subjects upon which he treats. That it has been favorably received in England and Scotland, would seem very clear from the fact of its having gone to a fourth ...
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Excerpt from The Practical Fruit, Flower and Vegetable Gardener's Companion: With a Calendar The small but very comprehensive work here pre sented to the American public, is the production of one who for more than thirty years was secretary of the Caledonian Horticultural Society, and who enjoyed every facility for acquiring the very best information relating to the subjects upon which he treats. That it has been favorably received in England and Scotland, would seem very clear from the fact of its having gone to a fourth edition in a very short time. The treatise pre sents, in a condensed form, a summary view of the con dition of horticultural knowledge in Britain, and espe cially in Scotland, from whence we derive the most intelligent and successful gardeners. The superior skill of these in the management of plants and the culture of many rare kinds of fruit, is doubtless owing in a great degree to the extraordinary exertions they have been accustomed to put forth to secure success in a climate far less genial to fruits and flowers than that of most parts of the United States. In endeavoring to adapt this valuable manual to the condition of things in the United States, it has been thought best to retain all the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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