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The art of promoting the growth of the cucumber and melon

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The art of promoting the growth of the cucumber and melon

Thomas Watkins

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Coaxing a ripe melon from an English garden was once a gardener's proud triumph. Thomas Watkins sets down his best directions for raising cucumbers and melons to perfection, from frame and heat to careful tending. A charming period manual, practical and precise, for the ambitious kitchen gardener. Grow sweeter fruit with the patient secrets of an old master under glass.

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76 chapters

  1. 1THE ART
  2. 2OF
  3. 3PROMOTING THE GROWTH
  4. 4OF THE
  5. 5Cucumber and Melon;
  6. 6IN
  7. 7A SERIES OF DIRECTIONS
  8. 8FOR THE BEST MEANS TO BE ADOPTED IN BRINGING THEM TO
  9. 9A COMPLETE STATE OF PERFECTION.
  10. 10THOMAS WATKINS,
  11. 11Many Years Foreman with Mr. Grange, of Hackney, and now with W. Knight, Esq. Highbury Park.
  12. 12LONDON: PUBLISHED BY HARDING, ST. JAMES'S STREET;
  13. 13AND SOLD BY GRANGE AND DULLY, FRUITERERS, COVENT GARDEN; MASON AND SON, SEEDSMEN, FLEET STREET; WARNER AND CO. SEEDSMEN, CORNHILL; GARRAWAY, NURSERY AND SEEDSMAN, NEAR MARYLAND POINT, STRATFORD, ESSEX; AND BY THE AUTHOR, AT HIGHBURY. 1824.
  14. 14PRINTED BY S. CAVE, ISLINGTON GREEN.
  15. 15THE ART
  16. 16OF
  17. 17PROMOTING THE GROWTH
  18. 18OF THE

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