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    Horticulture for Beginners - With Information on Market-Gardening and Flower Gardening
    Horticulture for Beginners - With Information on Market-Gardening and Flower Gardening
    Horticulture for Beginners - With Information on Market-Gardening and Flower Gardening
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    Horticulture for Beginners - With Information on Market-Gardening and Flower Gardening

    By Charles William Burkett

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    This vintage text contains a detailed treatise on horticulture for beginner gardeners. It places a particular focus on producing crops for market gardening, as well as the more traditional aspect of flower gardening. It includes information on the cultivation of orchard fruits, such as apples and plums; small fruits such as strawberries and raspberries; of garden vegetables for the table; of flowers of all sorts, including shrubbery and ornamental trees - and their arrangement into beautiful landscape effects around the home.Many antiquarian books such as becoming increasingly hard to come by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are proudly republishing this book now in an affordable modern edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateSep 9, 2016
    ISBN9781473353954
    Horticulture for Beginners - With Information on Market-Gardening and Flower Gardening

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      Horticulture for Beginners - With Information on Market-Gardening and Flower Gardening - Charles William Burkett

      HORTICULTURE

      HORTICULTURE

      SECTION XXV. MARKET–GARDENING

      THE word horticulture is one of those broad words under which much is grouped. It includes the cultivation of orchard fruits, such as apples and plums; of small fruits, such as strawberries and raspberries; of garden vegetables for the table; of flowers of all sorts, including shrubbery and ornamental trees and their arrangement into beautiful landscape effects around our homes. Horticulture then is a name for an art that is both far-reaching and important.

      The word gardening is generally given to that part of horticulture which has for its chief aim the raising of vegetables for our tables.

      Flower-gardening, or the cultivation of plants valued for their bloom in making ornamental beds and borders and furnishing flowers for the decoration of the home, is generally called floriculture. Landscape-gardening is the art of so arranging flower-beds, grass, shrubbery, and trees as to produce pleasing effects in the grounds surrounding our homes and in great public parks and pleasure grounds.

      Landscape-gardening, like architecture, has developed into a great art and is now regarded as one of the so-called fine arts, that is, arts that require taste, education, and refinement. The landscape-gardener forms pictures in nature just as the artist makes them on canvas, but uses natural objects in his pictures instead of paint and canvas.

      Market-Gardening. Formerly market-gardening was done on small tracts of land in the immediate vicinity of large cities, where supplies of stable manure could be used from the city stables. But with the great increase in the population of the cities, these small areas could no longer supply the demand, and the introduction of commercial fertilizers and the building of railroads enabled gardeners at great distances from city markets to grow and ship their products. Hence the markets, even in winter, are now supplied with: fresh vegetables from regions where there is no frost. Then, as spring opens, fruits and vegetables are shipped from more temperate regions. Later vegetables and fruits come from the sections nearer the great cities. This gradual nearing of the supply fields continues until the gardens near the cities can furnish what is needed.

      FIG. 82. STRAWBERRY-GROWING IS AN ART

      The market-gardeners around the great Northern cities, finding that

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