Handy Book of Horticulture

Excerpt from Handy Book of Horticulture: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Gardening Many useful and attractive books on gardening have of late years appeared - from the great standard authority, Mr W. Robinson's "English Flower Garden" now in its Seventh Edition, to Miss Jekyll's charming "Home and Garden." The bookstalls, too, are well furnished every week with capital journals of horticulture. But the books on the one hand are, as a rule, too large and too advanced for amateurs and gardeners on a small scale - for the class I mean of fairly intelligent young men who are placed in sole charge of small gardens, who have little natural aptitude for gardening and no training, and who look in vain to their employers for teaching or suggestions of any kind; and on the other hand, the gardening newspapers are, I find, too fragmentary to be of real help to them. 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.