The field and garden vegetables of America

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THE
FIELD AND GARDEN VEGETABLES
OF
AMERICA;
CONTAINING
FULL DESCRIPTIONS OF NEARLY ELEVEN HUNDRED SPECIES
AND VARIETIES; WITH DIRECTIONS FOR PROPAGATION, CULTURE,
AND USE.
BY FEARING BURR, JR.
ILLUSTRATED.
BOSTON: CROSBY AND NICHOLS,
117, WASHINGTON STREET.
1863.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863,
BY FEARING BURR, JR.,
In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the
District of Massachusetts.
BOSTON:
PRINTED BY JOHN WILSON AND SON, 5, WATER STREET
TO

HON. ALBERT FEARING,
President of the Hingham Agricultural and Horticultural
Society,
WHOSE EARNEST LABORS AND LIBERAL CONTRIBUTIONS IN THE
CAUSE OF
HUMANITY HAVE ENDEARED HIS NAME TO THE AGED POOR AND TO
ORPHAN CHILDREN, AND WHOSE ACTIVE SERVICES HAVE
EXERTED SO BENEFICIAL AN INFLUENCE ON AGRICULTURAL
PURSUITS IN HIS NATIVE TOWN,
This Volume is gratefully and respectfully
Dedicated
BY THE AUTHOR.
PREFACE.
Though embracing all the directions necessary for the
successful management of a Vegetable Garden, the present
volume is offered to the public as a manual or guide to
assist in the selection of varieties, rather than as a
treatise on cultivation. Through the standard works of
American authors, as well as by means of the numerous
agricultural and horticultural periodicals of our time,
all information of importance relative to the various
methods of propagation and culture, now in general
practice, can be readily obtained.
But, with regard to the characteristics which distinguish
the numerous varieties; their difference in size, form,
color, quality, and season of perfection; their hardiness,
productiveness, and comparative value for cultivation,—
these details, a knowledge of which is important as well
to the experienced cultivator as to the beginner, have
heretofore been obtained only through sources scattered
and fragmentary.

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