The American Gardener's Assistant
by Thomas Bridgeman (9780217064491)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PREFACE. The primary object in first publishing The Young Gardener's Assistant, was to enable onr respectable seedsmen, while furnishing a catalogue of seed for the use of the Kitchen and Flower Garden, to afford instruction, at a trifling expense, to such of their customers as had not a regular gardener, and thereby save themselves the blame, of those who may not have given their seed a fair trial for want of knowing how to dispose of it in the ground. The .Author, having shown his primary object in adopting the catalogue form, presumes that his readers will not be disappointed if they do not find there the names of all the species or varieties of plants they may wish to introduce into their gardens, the mode of culture of such being generally alike. If a catalogue of this kind was essential, it would occupy more space than is allotted to this book; besides, it would be impossible to keep pace with our enterprising horticulturists and florists, who are continually introducing new species intoour country. When, also, it is considered that there are a number of indigenous plants at present unknown to us, it will appear evident that the most extensive catalogue would not be perfect in this respect for any length of time; the Author, therefore, thought it unnecessary to attempt anything more than is essential to the attainment of a tolerable share of the products of the garden, by ordinary exertion. How far he has succeeded in this respect, must be left for the reader to decide. Thomas Bridgeman. chapter{Section 4KITCHEN-GARDENING. CHAPTER I. GENERAL REMARKS ON KITCHEN-GARDENING. Previous to preparing a kitchen-garden, the gardener should provide a blank-book, and prepare a map of his ground, on which he should first lay out a plan of his garden, allotting a plac...

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