Excerpt from The Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, Country Gentleman, Bee-Keeper and Poultry Chronicle, Vol. 20: A Journal of Gardening, Rural and Domestic Economy, Botany, and Natural History 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.

Excerpt from The Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, Country Gentleman, Bee-Keeper and Poultry Chronicle, Vol. 20: A Journal of Gardening, Rural and Domestic Economy, Botany, and Natural History But with the thought of the increased brain-work in England comes also the thought of the increased need of wholesome recreation. England is further and further receding from the merrie England of olden time, which meant to a great degree holiday-making - May-pole dancing, Christmas and Twelfth-night romping, and keeping all the many holidays of the old calendar. Now it is work ing England, and he who provides a wholesome recreation for his fellows in this brain-exhausting age is a public benefactor. But nothing gives such a change and benefit to men, to those, especially in populous cities pent, as a glimpse of Nature. A recent writer in the Saturday Review says well In the way of recreation one view of Hampstead Heath is worth whole volumes of tropical travel: and a linnet in a Surrey hedge gives a fresher idea of Nature's charms than all the stuffed specimens in the zoological department of the British Museum. But no object to pursue daily and constantly equals horticul ture for providing wholesome recreation, and, let me add, for promoting good temper. Wonderfully fascinating is it. Deny a garden yet he who loves one will not be beaten. Thus we all remember Picciola, or the Prison Flower, and he who watched it with intense delight as it un folded itself from its first pair of leaves to its full flowering. Then there is Dickens's story of the boy, crippled and bed ridden, who was devoted to his plant in the broken jug in. The window yes, and what comfort it gave him. 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.

Excerpt from The Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, Country Gentleman, Bee-Keeper, and Poultry Chronicle, Vol. 40: A Journal of Gardening, Rural and Domestic Economy, Botany, and Natural History; July December, 1868 Were it needful, many proofs might also be adduced. To evidence that something near akinto this is also inherent in the lower animals; but that plants and flowers, which have for ages been emblems of beauty, purity, and grace, should show traces of this moral perversion is something Very hard to believe, yet some species do exhibit traits of character which inevitably lead to this conclusion were there not many reasons for suspecting that there are functions connected with the economy of plants scarcely yet dreamt of in our philosophy. 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.

Excerpt from The Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, Country Gentleman, Bee-Keeper and Poultry Chronicle, Vol. 18: A Journal of Gardening, Rural and Domestic Economy, Botany, and Natural History; January 6, 1870; Vol. XLIII, Old Series I now send a list of Peas to which I gave a trial last summer, with the results. I had the ground trenched 2 feet deep, and well mixed with manure. All the varieties were sown on the same day and on the same ground. 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.

Excerpt from The Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, Country Gentleman, 1869, Vol. 16: Bee-Keeper and Poultry Chronicle; A Journal of Gardening, Rural and Domestic Economy, Botany, and Natural History; Vol. XLI, Old Series The Secretary announced that the Milan Academy had offered a prize for the best essay on the means of taking honey from hives without injuring the bees. Of course the plans would necessarily have reference to the usual form of hives adopted in North Italy, and not to special bee structures. 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.

Excerpt from The Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, Country Gentleman, Bee-Keeper, and Poultry Chronicle, Vol. 17: A Journal of Gardening, Rural and Domestic Economy, Botany, and Natural History; Vol. XLII, Old Series; July December, 1869 Bedding plants, 12 making cuttings of, 212; supporting. 249; notes on some, 881; white, 828; winter, 431, 475 with yellow flowers, 69. 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.