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THE BOOK OF

VEGETABLES and

GARDEN HERBS A

Handbook

Practical

and for

Table

Planting the

Vegetable

Gardener

By

ALLEN

FRENCH The Ma cm ill an Company OF Canada, 27 Richmond

Ltd., St.

Wo

Publishers

W., Toronto

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French's Book of Vegetables is

practical

*from the ground growing

plete directions for

ble in the climate of the It

represents a departure

erature.

description

handbooks, classes

does

It

but

of

not

garden

vegetables cultivata-

northern United States. in

vegetable-garden

Leaving

generalize.

processes

considers

it

all

individually,

com-

It gives

up.'

to

the

vegetables

the

according

to

lit-

the

general

not

their

in

im-

portance.

To it

do

most conveniently and succinctly

this

takes the dictionary form (after a general Intropages), putting

duction

of

garden

vegetables,

names

—

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into

alphabetical

indexes itself and plant

is

found

under each

in

all

one

its

subjects

of

their

order, so

there

is

to

— our

various

that the

book

be said about a

place.

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Besides a description of each plant, value,

and use, the book contains detailed

directions,

covering

the

soil,

planting

habit^

its

cultural

distances,

times for sowing, thinning and transplanting, tilizing,

winter

picking,

and the management

age,

The

directions

are

scientific practice.

for

protection,

which

the

renewal, stor-

of diseases and pests.

accordance with

in

There

eardener

fer-

is

will

the latest

much

in

the

look

in

vain in the

volume

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ordinary

t

handbooks on gardening

;

while obscure

points of culture, often necessary to success with a particular plant, are fully covered.

The all

from

illustrations,

original

numbering about 150,

drawings,

and are designed

are to

exhibit at their best the various plants, roots, fruitSj

and planting methods described.

They

ingly helpful as well as entertaining.

are exceed-


:

ORDER FORM THE MACMILIAN COMPANY OF CANADA, 27 Richmond Grentlertien

Street

—

Kindly send

cop

to

.of

Ihe

undersigned address^

ALLEN FRENCH'S

Book of Vegetables and Garden Herbs l^fno, cloth,

Name Address-

Date

Ltd.

W., Toronto

312 pp., $1.75; by

.

mail, $1.89





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