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Title: The Field and Garden Vegetables of America
Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred
Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation,
Culture and Use.

Author: Fearing Burr

Release Date: June 5, 2007 [EBook #21682]

Language: English

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THE

FIELD AND GARDEN VEGETABLES

OF

AMERICA;

CONTAINING

FULL DESCRIPTIONS OF NEARLY ELEVEN HUNDRED SPECIES AND VARIETIES; WITH
DIRECTIONS FOR PROPAGATION, CULTURE, AND USE.

BY FEARING BURR, JR.

ILLUSTRATED.

BOSTON: CROSBY AND NICHOLS,
117, WASHINGTON STREET.
1863.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863,
BY FEARING BURR, JR.,

In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.

BOSTON:
PRINTED BY JOHN WILSON AND SON, 5, WATER STREET

* * * * *

TO

HON. ALBERT FEARING,

President of the Hingham Agricultural and Horticultural Society,

WHOSE EARNEST LABORS AND LIBERAL CONTRIBUTIONS IN THE CAUSE OF
HUMANITY HAVE ENDEARED HIS NAME TO THE AGED POOR AND TO
ORPHAN CHILDREN, AND WHOSE ACTIVE SERVICES HAVE
EXERTED SO BENEFICIAL AN INFLUENCE ON AGRICULTURAL
PURSUITS IN HIS NATIVE TOWN,

This Volume is gratefully and respectfully Dedicated

BY THE AUTHOR.

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PREFACE.

Though embracing all the directions necessary for the successful
management of a Vegetable Garden, the present volume is offered to the
public as a manual or guide to assist in the selection of varieties,
rather than as a treatise on cultivation. Through the standard works of
American authors, as well as by means of the numerous agricultural and
horticultural periodicals of our time,