Book Description

Excerpt from School and Home Gardens This book gives definite instructions for arranging, planting, and caring for plants commonly grown in the house, yard, and garden. It tells how to do things in such a way that good results will be obtained. It is not a book of experiments, nor does it deal with generalities. The difficulties confronting the student in cultivating each individual plant are considered, one at a time, and definite directions for meeting them are given. The various planting directions given in the book have been tested repeatedly by the author in his home gardens, and by pupils in school gardens under his personal directions. While designed especially to be used as a textbook for grammar grades, "School and Home Gardens" will serve also as a handbook for the home gardener. In districts where there are no school gardens, instructions may be given at school and the lessons put into practice at home. Primary and intermediate grade teachers will find in it ample material from which they may select for their grades. The numerous drawings and photographs have been made expressly for this book, under the personal supervision of the author. The pen drawings are by C. H. L. Gebfert and F. Schuyler Mathews; the planting plans by S. A. Arnold; the photographs by Newcomb & Robinson, Robert Cameron, G. W. Cokell, and Arden Nortrup. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.