trenarzh-CNnlitjarufaen

THE
FIELD AND GARDEN VEGETABLES

OF

AMERICA;

CONTAINING

FULL DESCRIPTIONS OF NEARLY ELEVEN HUNDRED SPECIES
AND VARIETIES; WITHDIRECTIONS FOR PROPAGATION, CULTURE, AND USE.

BY FEARING BURR, JR.

ILLUSTRATED.

BOSTON: CROSBY AND NICHOLS,
117, WASHINGTON STREET.
1863.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863,
BY FEARING BURR, JR.,
In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District ofMassachusetts.

BOSTON:
PRINTED BY JOHN WILSON AND SON, 5, WATER STREET




TO

HON. ALBERT FEARING,

President of the Hingham Agricultural and Horticultural Society,

WHOSE EARNEST LABORS AND LIBERAL CONTRIBUTIONS IN THE CAUSE OF
HUMANITY HAVE ENDEARED HIS NAME TO THE AGED POOR AND TO
ORPHAN CHILDREN, AND WHOSE ACTIVE SERVICES HAVE
EXERTED SO BENEFICIAL AN INFLUENCE ON AGRICULTURAL
PURSUITS IN HIS NATIVE TOWN,

This Volume is gratefully and respectfully Dedicated

BY THE AUTHOR.


PREFACE.

Though embracing all the directions necessary for the successfulmanagement of a Vegetable Garden, the present volume is offered to thepublic as a manual or guide to assist in the selection of varieties,rather than as a treatise on cultivation. Through the standard works ofAmerican authors, as well as by means of the numerous agricultural andhorticultural periodicals of our time, all information of importancerelative to the various methods of propagation and culture, now ingeneral practice, can be readily obtained.

But, with regard to the characteristics which distinguish the numerousvarieties; their difference in size, form, color, quality, and season ofperfection; their hardiness, productiveness, and comparative value forcultivation,—these details, a knowledge of which is important as wellto the experienced cultivator as to the beginner, have heretofore beenobtained only through sources scattered and fragmentary.

To supply this deficiency in horticultural literature, I haveendeavored, in the following pages, to give full descriptions of thevegetables common to the gardens of this country. It is not, however,presumed that the list is complete, as many varieties, perhaps of muchexcellence, are comparatively local: never having been described, theyare, of course, little known. Neither is the expectation indulged, thatall the descriptions will be found perfect; though much allowance mustbe made in this respect for the influence of soil, locality, andclimate, as well as for the difference in taste of differentindividuals.

Much time, labor, and expense have been devoted to secure accuracy ofnames and synonymes; the seeds of nearly all of the prominent varietieshaving been imported both from England and France, and planted, inconnection with American vegetables of the same name, with reference tothis object alone.

The delay and patience required in the preparation of a work like thepresent may be in some degree appreciated from the fact, that in orderto obtain some comparatively unimportant particular with regard to thefoliage, flower, fruit, or seed, of some obscure and almost unknownplant, it has been found necessary to import the seed or root; to plant,to till, to watch, and wait an entire season.

Though some vegetables have been included which have proved of littlevalue either for the table or for agricultural purposes, still it isbelieved such descriptions will be found by no means unimportant; as atimely knowledge of that which is inferior, or absolutely worthless, isoften as advantageous as a knowledge of that which is of positivesuperiority.

That the volu

...

BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!


Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR!