Gardening For Profit; A Guide To The Successful Cultivation Of The Market And Family Garden. Entirely New And Greatly Enlarged

Anglický jazyk

Gardening For Profit; A Guide To The Successful Cultivation Of The Market And Family Garden. Entirely New And Greatly Enlarged

Vydavateľstvo: Thonssen Press
Rok vydania: 2009
Formát: Paperback
Rozmer: 216 x 140 mm
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9781444683806

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36.20 €

O knihe

First published in 1901, this volume contains a detailed guide to gardening, with a focus on making money. It looks at everything form how to prepare the land and what to buy, to planting, propagating, and profiting. This timeless volume contains fantastic tips that will be of considerable utility for those with an interest in selling fruit and vegetables or simple producing for their own consumption. Contents include: The Men Fitted for the Business of Gardening, The Amount of Capital Required and Working Force per Acre, Profits of Market Gardening, Location, Situation and Laying Out, Soil, Drainage and Preparation, Manures, The Use and Management of Cold Frames, Forcing-Pits for Greenhouses, Wide Greenhouses for Forcing Vegetable Crops, etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on the history of gardening.