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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-
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ALLEN FRENCH'S
Book of Vegetables and Garden Herbs l^fno, cloth,
Name Address-
Date
Ltd.
W., Toronto
312 pp., $1.75; by
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mail, $1.89
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