Excerpt from Gardening Instructions for Club Members This circular contains rules for beginning w'ork, instructions for selecting the tenth-acre garden plot and preparation of the soil, setting the plants, and cultivating the garden. Later you will be sent a circular on tomato diseases and insect pests. Please keep these circulars; read the instructions carefully and refer to them often. You will thus be sure that you are following directions. 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.

Excerpt from Vegetable Gardening and Canning: A Manual for Garden Clubs In club gardening still other advantages are gained, the most important of which is undoubtedly the ability to do team work. Some of us who can do very good work alone, have never learned to pull together. The garden club cannot be a complete success unless its members are willing to join hands in an effort to make theirs the best gardens in the country. If this spirit prevails throughout all the garden ventures, then there will be a great number of successful gardens. But if by some strange mischance no crop at all should result, the fact that you had learned to work together would be a fine reward to you. What I mean is this: aside from the great value of the crop which your gardens will produce, is that equally gr'eat moral value, which some of us do not yet realize, of having learned to pull together. 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.

Excerpt from The Garden Patch This collection of instructions how to grow vegetables is put into book form for the use of the amateur gardener. The writer has endeavored to stick closely to his subject and give in a compact and concise form the desired information so that the reader will not lose time in going over the 'book. 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.

Excerpt from Little Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them The irregular garden plan shown by Fig. 3 will appeal, I think, to the fancy of fewer gardeners, yet it has many good nowts. It gives the charm of mystery to many a walk and nook, while at the same time increasing the number of aspects, and therefore of possibilities. There is a substantial summerhouse in an ever green sheltered corner, which would prove useful also as a. Winter retreat if it could face south or south-west. Safe Rules for Laying out Walks. - Allow for approach to every bit of cultivated ground; give sufficient scope for pleasant pedestrian exercise, create as many new views as possible by turns and branches, yet avoid sacrificing ground unnecessarily. In Fig. 3 it will be seen that there is no path on one side of the lawn, as the flower border can be reached by the turf, and the flowers will look their best against it. A considerable amount of vegetable garden is allowed for, and there is a good rosery. One should always make new walks wide enough for comfort in walking, say a minimum width of 3 feet unless the garden is very small. Fig. 2 would prove more suitable than Fig. 1 for quite a small piece of ground, perhaps, but Fig. 3 could be simplified by making only one lawn and turning the distant grass into kitchen garden. 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.

Excerpt from Garden Guide: The Amateur Gardeners Handbook The country (and In this term may be included practically all our suburban towns, boroughs and villages) is the children's paradise, with all Nature s world as their playground. The hygienic value of fresh vegetables and fruits is beyond ques tion; their value to the family cannot be estimated in terms of money. The writer knows this and thousands of fortunate suburbanites will testify to its truth. A good garden is Nature's antidote for all ills flesh is heir to; it certainly does not make for a source of revenue to the physician. Fresh fruits and vegetables, each in their season, taken from your garden, are something quite different from the much handled and frequently stale products we buy in the city. Nearly every vegetable 18 an annual and can be grown with the first year S occupancy, and the second Summer the taste for all the small fruits can be indulged In to the full. The Cliff Apartment dweller, whose vision is bounded on all sides by straight lines of brick and mortar, cement and stone, whose life is harried by the janitor, whose quietude is disturbed by the noises overhead and below, who cannot enjoy anight s sleep in the open without fear of arrest, whose movements to and from business are made miserable In trolley, subway or L, must surely envy the commuter, even though the latter be still made the butt of the me pressible joker, whom we pardon because, poor man, he knows no better. 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.

Excerpt from Plain Instructions in Gardening: With a Calendar of Operations and Directions for Every Month in the Year Every step, and we both soon drscovered the truth of the apparent paradox, that 1t 1s not enough to know any art or sclence to be able to teach 1t, and Instead of wondermg that I had not obtamed all the information I wrshed from books, 1t seemed strange that I had found them of any use at all. 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.

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