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The art of promoting the growth of the cucumber and melon
Thomas Watkins
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
- 1THE ART
- 2OF
- 3PROMOTING THE GROWTH
- 4OF THE
- 5Cucumber and Melon;
- 6IN
- 7A SERIES OF DIRECTIONS
- 8FOR THE BEST MEANS TO BE ADOPTED IN BRINGING THEM TO
- 9A COMPLETE STATE OF PERFECTION.
- 10THOMAS WATKINS,
- 11Many Years Foreman with Mr. Grange, of Hackney, and now with W. Knight, Esq. Highbury Park.
- 12LONDON: PUBLISHED BY HARDING, ST. JAMES'S STREET;
- 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.
- 14PRINTED BY S. CAVE, ISLINGTON GREEN.
- 15THE ART
- 16OF
- 17PROMOTING THE GROWTH
- 18OF THE
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