THE CULTURE AND DOMESTIC USE OF ITS VEGETABLES BY PETER ADAM SCHENCK, FORMERLY GARDENER TO EDWARD C. WILLIAMS, 190. "Hence Summer has her riches, Autumn hence, And hence e'en Winter fills his withered hand NEW-YORK: ORANGE JUDD & COMPANY. 41 PARK ROW. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, oy JOHN P. JEWETT & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. THE publishers. introduce this little volume to the notice of the public, with confidence in its merits, and adaptation to the wants of that class for whom it is designed. The author has aimed to give thorough and practical directions upon the formation and management of the family kitchen garden, and upon the cultivation of our common vegetables, fruits and medicinal herbs, in a clear, simple manner, without any attempt at elegance of style. He here details what he has learned from personal experience, as compared with, and enlarged by, the published observations of others upon the same subject. For this reason, it is believed that the work will be found more generally useful, than though it were of a strictly local character. The numerous receipts scattered through the pages, will be appreciated by the housekeeper, and they add much to the value of the other matter. Many families do not derive half the satisfaction and profit from their gardens, which they might if acquainted with the best modes of preparing its vegetables and fruits for the table. The author and publishers have spared neither pains nor expense to render this treatise, although modest in price as well as in size, a complete and reliable TEXT-BOOK upon kitchen gardening; and they indulge the hope, that it will be received with that favor to which they think it entitled. JOHN P. JEWETT & Co. MARCH 1st, 1851. |