. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. VEGETABLE GARDENING If. with hi-^ knowledge of vegetahle-growing, the gar- dener eoinhiues ;oa business ;ind ext'outive ability, and an intimate knowledge of market eonditious, he should be ahle. liowever. to make it a pretitalde ami at- tractive l>usiiiess. Although tlie outlay is likely to be large, t
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. VEGETABLE GARDENING If. with hi-^ knowledge of vegetahle-growing, the gar- dener eoinhiues ;oa business ;ind ext'outive ability, and an intimate knowledge of market eonditious, he should be ahle. liowever. to make it a pretitalde ami at- tractive l>usiiiess. Although tlie outlay is likely to be large, the returns are direet and quick/ Fig. '2VAi. There is a large- literature devoted to vegetable-gar- dening, although the greater part of it applies ehiedy to amateur or home-growing. Leading current books" on the general subject of vegeta- ble - gardening are those by Greiner, Green, Henderson. Rawsou and Landreth. F o r California one sliould consult AVickson's "Galifornia Vegeta- bles in Garden and ; and for the Atlantic south, Kolfs "Vegetable - Growing in the South for Northern ; There are mauy books devoted to special topics, ami there are many others whiidi in tlieir time were of i^'reat practical value, but which are nowchietlv known as recording the historv of the epoch in whitdi they were written. Only one Anirricau work has heen <levoted to de- scriptions of varieties of viire- tables. as the works of Dowu- ing. Thomas, and others hiive to varieties of fruits. This work is Fearing Burr's "Field and Garden Vegetables of ; Boston. and the alnidir- nient of it in 180G, called "(iar- deu Vegetables and How to Cultivate ; A full list of the American vegetable - gar- dening literature may be found in Bailey's "Principles of Vegetable-Gardening" (1901). Persons who desire a cycloitedic account of vegetables should consult Vilmorin's "Les Plantes Potageres/' the first edition
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