The Art of Promoting the Growth of the Cucumber and Melon
by Thomas Watkins
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About this eBook
- Author
- Watkins, Thomas
- Title
- The art of promoting the growth of the cucumber and melon in a series of directions for the best means to be adopted in bringing them to a complete state of perfection
- Credits
- Produced by Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- SB: Agriculture: Plant culture
- Subject
- Melons
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 27548
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27548
- Release Date
- December 16, 2008
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE ART — OF
- 2.A COMPLETE STATE OF PERFECTION . — BY
- 3.THOMAS WATKINS, — Many Years Foreman with Mr. Grange, of Hackney, and now with W. Knight, Esq. Highbury Park. — LONDON: — PUBLISHED BY HARDING, ST. JAMES'S STREET; — AND 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. — PRINTED BY S. CAVE, ISLINGTON GREEN. — THE ART — OF
- 4.PROMOTING THE GROWTH — OF THE — Cucumber and Melon;
- 5.ADVERTISEMENT.
- 6.CONTENTS.
- 7.Preface. — THE ART — OF
- 8.PROMOTING THE GROWTH — OF THE — Cucumber and Melon; — ON THE MANAGEMENT REQUIRED IN THE CULTURE OF EARLY CUCUMBERS.
- 9.THE SEED-BED FOR OCTOBER: — To be sown from the 10th to the 20th of the Month. — FOOTNOTES:
- 10.THE FRUITING FRAME, — For Plants sown in October, November, December, and January. — FOOTNOTES:
- 11.THE SEED-BED FOR JANUARY. — To be sown in the beginning of the Month. — ON THE — MANAGEMENT
- 12.REQUIRED IN THE CULTURE — OF THE — Late Cucumber. — ON THE — MANAGEMENT
- 13.REQUIRED IN THE CULTURE — OF THE — Hand-glass Cucumber
- 14.Early and Late Cucumbers. — Three-light Boxes for October sowing. — One-light Box for October sowing. — For January sowing. — For Spring sowing.
- 15.THE EARLY AND LATE — Melon. — ON THE — MANAGEMENT
- 16.Early and Late Melons. — FOOTNOTES:
- 17.Early and late Melons. — Boxes and Lights for the first early Melons. — For Melons sown from the middle of February until the latter end of March, grown with linings. — For late Melons, grown without Linings. — Brick Pits. — THE END. — PRINTED BY S. CAVE, ISLINGTON GREEN.
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