Root and Stem Vegetables

Alexander Dean

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Cucumbers, Vegetable Marrows, and Aubergines; which, though containing much water, yet in the summer season are deliciously cool and enjoyable to the palate. The hardiest section of vegetables are to be found in the leaf or hearting, or white-head producing Brassicas.

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• Gardening

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• Publié par: Forgotten Books
• Date de parution: 27 novembre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780243618620
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

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thi s series failed to tr at upon the culture of vegetables it would n ver j ustify its title constitut a guide to present day gardening I the times thatt is a sign public appreciati on the natural foods the gard n orchard and farm is incr asing and whilst nati onal importanc of vegetabl cu tur is ven n ow adequat ly recognised at the sam time progress is being made in this direction The author the present volume has be n in ti mately conn ct d with v getable gard ning half a century many years he has lectured on veg table culture theSteaching amateurs andurrey ount ouncil thus cottagers the principles on which successful culture is bas ed H e has found d aNational egetableSis ch ociety and ir man that body whilst his s rvices to Fruit and table ommittee the oyal H orticulturalSh veoci ty xtended over some twen ty years For his distinguished s rvices and devotion to kitchen gardening he has been awarded the ictoria M dal H on our in H orticultur by the ounci l of the oyal H orticultu alSociety The information contained in the following pages the narration personal experi nc without as he states referen ce to any published works I f n o acknowledgment has to be made to previ ous authors however a debt of

R EFA E gratitude is due to s veral cultivators who lent generous assistance in the matter obtaining specimens for illustra tion at a late season the year These include M ssrs SuttonSons M essrs D Beckettobbi Mr ldenham H ouseGardens H ertfordshir Mr Basill Woburn arkGardens ddlestone and Mr Bowerman J Hackwood arkGardens Basi ngstoke work is confiv g tables ned to nthat yield food i the shap of roots bulbs tubers blanched st ms but it is proposed to issue a companion volume the subj ect gr en vegetables such instanc as the n umerous mbers the abbag t ibe hearting and l af plants and the pod bearing kinds in cluding as and B ans I

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I NTR O D UTI O N may be assumed that the urgent necessities of man had a powe ful infln originating the cultureuence i Of vegetables as food products rimitive man dep ndent for his maintenance animalsfip oductssuch vegetable sh and as f uits and nuts he developed greater powers Observation he found that food plants were the better cultivation in soi l tilled to the extent that was possible with the elementary implemen s at his disposal I n course of time he saw that by planting an d sowing in situat ons close at home where the crops could be protected f om wi ld animals a s pply vegetables could be obtai ned with far greater than when left to grow wild onsid ing the rough characte of cultural implements in comparatively recent times it is scarcely possible imagine what those used by primitive man could be like But c ude oth r wise begin ning had to be made and the results may have been as satisfying to those early cultivators as the best obtainable day are to usInatural to suppost seems that i n some such way the cultivation of vegetables as human food was commenced ncient history n ow and then contains refe ences to the culture garden products li ny who lived i n thefirst