Excerpt from Gardening for Pleasure: A Guide to the Amateur in the Fruit, Vegetable, and Flower Garden, With Full Directions for the Greenhouse, Conservatory, and Window-GardenMy aim in writing the book was to make it such as would be useful to the occupant of a city lot, or to the possessor of a few window plants, as well as to the owner of a country residence that is fully appointed in all mat ters relating to the cultivation of ¿owers, fruits, and vegetables. The necessity for such a book has been made evident to me by the inquiries from hundreds of ama teurs in gardening, inquiries to many of which neither of my previous works, Gardening for Profit, or Practical furnished proper replies, the one being written mainly for information of the vegetable market gardener, and the other for the commercial ¿orist.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.