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THE

AMERICAN

KITCHEN GARDENER;

CONTAINING

PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR THE CULTURE OF

VEGETABLES.

ALSO,

GARDEN FRUITS, STRAWBERRY, RASPBERRY, GOOSEBERRY
CURRANTS, MELONS, &c., &c.

Thomas keen

BY T. G. FESSENDEN.

REVISED FROM THE 35th EDITION, AND ADAPTED TO THE USE OF
FAMILIES,

BY A PRACTICAL GARDENER.

NEW YORK:

C. M. SAXTON AND COMPANY,
AGRICULTURAL BOOK PUBLISHERS,

No. 140 FULTON STREET.

1856,

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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBKARY.

1867. May 14.

By each. of sufl. given by

the Amer. Ant. Hav. Society'

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Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1852, by

C. M. SAXTON,

in a Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.

PUBLISHER'S ADVERTISEMENT.

THE Publisher, having found the want of small, cheap Books, of acknowledged merit, on the great topics of farming economy, and meeting for those of such a class a constant demand, offers, in his Rural Handbooks, of which this is one, works calculated to fill the veid.

He trusts that a discerning Publie will both buy and read these little Treatises, so admirably adapted to all classes. and fitted by their size for the pocket, and thus readable at the fireside, on the road, and in short everywhere.

C. M. SAXTON,

Agricultural Book Publisher.

INTRODUCTION.

THE importance and utility of HORTICULTURE, or the art of cultivating those products of the soil which are used in domestic eeonomy, require no elaborate exposition. The greatest blessings which a kind Providence can bestow on man, in his sublunary state of existence, are, health of body and peace of mind; and the pursuits of gardening eminently conduce to these. Gardening was the primitive employment of the first man; and the first of men, among his descendants, have ever been attached to that occupation. Indeed, we can hardly form an idea of human felicity, in which a garden is not one of its most prominent characteristics.

Gardening is not only an innocent and healthy, but a profitable occupation. It is not alone by the money which is made, but also by the money which is saved, that the profits of a pursuit should be estimated. Where a good garden constitutes part of a rural establishment, and the culinary uses of its productions are well understood, the field or the market furnishes a proportionably small part of the provisions necessary for family consumption. "I consider," said Dr. Deane, "the kitchen garden of very considerable importance, as pot-herbs, salads, and roots of various kinds, are useful in house-keeping. Having a plenty of them at hand, a family will not be so likely to run into the erior, which is too common in this country, of eating flesh in too great a proportion for health. Farmers, as well as others, should have kitchen gardens; and they need not grudge the labor of tending them, which may be done at odd intervals of

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