This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DECEMBER Making Plans DECEMBER is a dull month in the garden out of doors, and the most trying for the amateur unless he possesses a greenhouse. It is difficult to arouse enthusiasm in December; the joys of planting are, or ought to be, over, and little fresh growth is visible above ground. One has to possess one's soul in patience. The measure of present satisfaction is governed largely by the work carried out during the two previous months; if all plants the gardener had set his heart upon growing are safely planted, he knows they are preparing to yield him a full measure of delight in the future. He who has delayed must hasten to make up for lost time and hope for the best. Perhaps the best relaxation for December is to turn to the gardening books and catalogues, which provide much food for reflection and tell many fairy tales. It is fairly safe when you read of a scarlet flower to expect only a red one; to translate orange as yellow, yellow as primrose, mauve as lavender, crimson as dark red, and so on, and to regard with suspicion the flowers of purplish-rose. Among the Hardy Flowers Tidying Up.?-Some people's gardens are always tidy, others are just the reverse. I am sure that tidiness in gardens is an excellent thing, for where tidiness is practised there also is care taken. It is not wise to be too scrupulous at this season, or more harm thau good may follow. One sees the gardener digging amongst shrubs with a spade, turning over the soil as though he were preparing a strawberry bed. The roots of the shrubs are bound to be damaged by such a process. A garden fork is the proper tool to use when working among shrubs or plants; deep digging is not needed there. How few amateurs place a proper value upon the dead leaves that are swept up at this time of year. ...

Together With Chapters On The History And Cookery Of The Apple, And On The Preparation Of Cider.

Together With Chapters On The History And Cookery Of The Apple, And On The Preparation Of Cider.

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!