Historical Garden Books – 147 in a series – American Gardener: a treatise on the situation, soil, and laying out of gardens, on the making and managing of hot-beds and green-houses(1819)

PREFACE.

1. The proper uses of a Preface appear to te, tu give the reader information, which may be useful, during the perusal of the work to which it is prefixed ; to explain the nature and object of the work ; to point out the method of the arrangement of its several parts ; and, in short, to afford the means of due preparation for the task the reader is entering upon ; which preparation is always a great advantage to the author as well as to the reader.

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Historical Garden Books – 146 in a series – The principles of vegetable-gardening (1901) by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey

PART I — GENERAL VIEW CHAPTER I THE LAY-OUT OF THE PLANTATION

Vegetable-GARDENING, or olericulture, is the art and business of raising kitchen-garden vegetables, and the applications of the various sciences thereto. The term kitchen-garden vegetable, or “Vegetable” in the gardener’s sense, is impossible of definition. It is approximately true to say that the term applies to the edible part of an annual or at least an herbaceous plant. Vegetables-are not often used in the dessert, and therefore belong more properly to the kitchen than do the fruits. There is exception to this in the melon; and it is significant that this is often included with the fruits by European writers. The only complete idea of the use of the term is to be obtained from a detailed catalogue of the products which are called vegetables, and this inventory will be found on a later page ; in the meantime, it may be well to say that leading vegetables are potatoes, cabbages, onions, tomatoes, asparagus, peas, beans, cucumbers, squashes, celery, lettuce.

Publication date 1901

Topics Vegetable gardening

Publisher New York, The Macmillan company; [etc., etc.]

Collection library_of_congress; biodiversity; americana

Digitizing sponsor The Library of Congress

Contributor The Library of Congress

Language English

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