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The profitable culture of vegetables for market-gardeners for market gardeners, small holders, and others / Thomas Smith.

By: Smith, Thomas [author ].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Creative Media Partners, LLC, [2022]Description: 456 pages : illustrations, 23cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781018805054 (hardback); 1018805052 (hardback); 9781018811536 (paperback).Subject(s): Vegetable gardening -- United States | Truck farming | GardeningDDC classification: 635
Contents:
Introduction -- The soil and its treatment -- Manures and fertilizers -- The small holder as a market gardener -- Selection of small holding -- The business to be carried on -- Rotation of cultivation, manuring and cropping -- The laying-out, cultivating and cropping of a holding -- French gardening -- French garden - equipment -- French garden - preparation -- French garden - preparing plants for early crops -- French garden - crops grown on hot-beds, in cold frames, and in the open-air -- A quarter-acre of French garden -- Intensive cultures on allotments and cottage gardens -- Seeds, sowing, thinning-out, and transplanting -- Devices for forcing, forwarding and protecting -- Details of the cultivation of vegetables -- Reminders of work to be done, month by month -- Grading, packing, and marketing -- Insect pests and fungoid diseases which attack vegetables.
Subject: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. -- Provided by publisher.
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General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending Available MTU CORK Module AGRI6018 - Recommended reading. 00220390
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending Available MTU CORK Module AGRI6018 - Recommended reading. 00220391
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.

Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Includes index.

Introduction -- The soil and its treatment -- Manures and fertilizers -- The small holder as a market gardener -- Selection of small holding -- The business to be carried on -- Rotation of cultivation, manuring and cropping -- The laying-out, cultivating and cropping of a holding -- French gardening -- French garden - equipment -- French garden - preparation -- French garden - preparing plants for early crops -- French garden - crops grown on hot-beds, in cold frames, and in the open-air -- A quarter-acre of French garden -- Intensive cultures on allotments and cottage gardens -- Seeds, sowing, thinning-out, and transplanting -- Devices for forcing, forwarding and protecting -- Details of the cultivation of vegetables -- Reminders of work to be done, month by month -- Grading, packing, and marketing -- Insect pests and fungoid diseases which attack vegetables.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. -- Provided by publisher.

MTU CORK Module AGRI6018 - Recommended reading.