Excerpt from Fruits, Vegetables and Flowers: A Non-Technical Manual for Their Culture, Management and ImprovementThis book is written for growers of fruits, vegetables and ¿owers, and makes a popular appeal to all engaged in this branch of farming, whether amateurs or professionals. It is designed to be a handy reference work on the culture of vegetables, fruits, nuts, and ¿owers.There are chapters on the principles of vegetable gardening, mush room culture, medicinal and aromatic plants, principles of fruit produc tion, nut culture, beautifying home grounds, and a lengthy treatise on diseases Of garden and orchard crops, and their remedies.Each department has been prepared by a specialist in the subject presented, and his name appears at the beginning of each chapter. Those unacknowledged have been prepared by myself. References are given here and there to books and pamphlets for those wishing more exhaustive information on specific subjects.The illustrations have been secured from many sources. Due credit has been given these.Special acknowledgment is due the publishers Of this volume and the other volumes in the series for their conception, and for the many helpful suggestions in the presentation Of its subject-matter.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.