The Practical Gardener And Modern Horticulturist PDF Download

Excerpt from The Practical Gardener, and Modern Horticulturist: Containing the Latest and Most Approved Methods for the Management of the Kitchen, Fruit, and Flower-Garden, the Green-House, Hot-House, &C. &C.; For Every Month of the Year; Each Department Being Distinctly and Separately Arranged Horticulture is not confined, at the present day, to a few iodi yiduals, who may have selected it as the immediate means of their subsistence; its spiritistransfusedintoallclsssesofsociety; itbas become a favorite object of the attention and study of the fair, sex, in the most elevated ranks oflife. Asasourceofagreeabledo mestic recreation, especially to the female sex, few objects stand higher in esttmauonthan the care of a garden. Itisasource of health to the valetudinarian; the aspect of his flowers reuovates his spirits, and in their balsamic odour he seemstoinhale fresh life, and a delightful invigoration of his exhausted frame. What is more pleasing and gratifying to age, when the customary scenes of life have lost their relish, than to spend the evening of his days in the cultivation and amusement of a garden? He looks on his flowers as his children, and in their bloom and blossom feels himself young again. A taste lbr gardening, unlike all other tastes, diminishes notasweadvanceinyears; itlives withus to thelasthour, audit is our last wish, that the flowers which we have reared, should be strewn on our grave. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.