Vegetable Culture For Amateurs Alphabetically Arranged With A Practical Calendar Of Operations For The Year

Author : Trevor Monmouth
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330414156
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book Vegetable Culture for Amateurs, 1913 written by Trevor Monmouth and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Vegetable Culture for Amateurs, 1913: Alphabetically Arranged With a Practical Calendar of Operations for the Year To grow high-class vegetables it is imperative that seeds of the highest order be purchased. It is quite useless to expect the finest vegetables of really good flavour from cheap seeds, that have not been carefully selected, and all "rogues" weeded out and their germinating power tested. The price may be higher, but the result pays over and over again. Nothing is more disappointing than after labour, expense, and attention have been bestowed on a crop to find it of an inferior variety. In the present manual the vegetables are described in alphabetical order. Cultural details for each kind are given, together with a list, of those varieties which have proved thoroughly reliable for home consumption, and, if desired, suitable for exhibition. Further, the most suitable manures for each crop on the average soil, and the principal insect and other pests to which it is liable, with the most effective method for prevention and cure, are enumerated. I have purposely omitted such vegetables as are of purely botanic interest, and which are seldom, if ever, to be found in the average garden, but all really useful kinds are described. It is, therefore, hoped that this little book may prove serviceable not merely to the amateur, for whom it is especially written, but also to the professional gardener. At any rate it is the outcome of some thirty years' practical experience in the cultivation of vegetables for exhibition, the market, and home consumption. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.