Field and Garden Vegetables of America


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Fearing Burr Jr.'s 1865 book is designed to help gardeners choose what varieties they wish to plant, rather than being a guide to cultivation. The work provides descriptions of a vast variety of vegetables grown in the United States, with reference to their size, form, color, quality, productiveness, season, and hardiness.




The Field and Garden Vegetables of America


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The Field and Garden Vegetables of America By Fearing Burr







The Field and Garden Vegetables of America


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The Field and Garden Vegetables of America is a book by Fearing Burr Jr. It provides descriptions of hundreds of species and varieties of vegetables, along with directions for propagation and culture.




The Field and Garden Vegetables of America


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The Field and Garden Vegetables of America is a comprehensive guide to the vegetables grown in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century. Fearing Burr, a noted horticulturalist and author, provides detailed descriptions of nearly eleven hundred different vegetables, including information on their origins, cultivation, and uses. His book is an invaluable resource for historians, gardeners, and anyone interested in the history of American agriculture. 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.







The Field and Garden Vegetables of America (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Though embracing all the directions necessary for the successful management of a Vegetable Garden, the present volume is offered to the public as a manual or guide to assist in the selection of varieties, rather than as a treatise on cultivation. Through the stand ard works of American authors, as well as by means of the numerous agricultural and horticultural periodi cals of our time, all information of importance relative to the various methods of propagation and culture, now in general practice, can be readily obtained. 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.







The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.


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