Excerpt from The American Kitchen-Gardener: Containing Complete Practical Directions for the Cultivation of Culinary Vegetables and Herbs, Together With Instructions for Forcing of Forwarding Vegetables Out of the Ordinary SeasonsThe young gardener's assistant having been ex tended to five times its original size, by the introduction of various additional subjects connected with Horticulture, I have been induced to publish that part which relates to the cultivation of Culinary Vegetables, Pot Herbs, &c., , in a separate form, under the title of The Kitchen Gardener's Instructor. This has been done with a view. To enable our respectable seedsmen to afford instruction, at a tri¿ing ex pense, to those of their customers whose attention may be directed wholly to that branch of Horticulture, and thereby prevent themselves being blamed by those who may not have given their seed a fair trial, from not knowing how to dispose Of it in the ground.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.