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Title: Theory and Practice, Applied to the Cultivation of the Cucumber in the Winter Season
To Which Is Added a Chapter on Melons

Author: Thomas Moore

Release Date: June 14, 2010 [EBook #32818]

Language: English

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THEORY AND PRACTICE,
APPLIED TO THE
CULTIVATION
OF
THE CUCUMBER,
IN THE
WINTER SEASON:

TO WHICH IS ADDED,
A CHAPTER ON MELONS:

BY THOMAS MOORE,
MEMBER OF THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.

SECOND EDITION,

WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING REMARKS ON HEATING
AERATING, AND COVERING FORCING HOUSES; ON
TRANSPLANTING, AND THE USE OF TURF POTS; ON
WATERING; ON ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY, &c., &c.

LONDON:
RICHARD GROOMBRIDGE AND SONS,
5 PATERNOSTER ROW.

MDCCCXLVII.

LONDON:
PRINTED BY DAVID M. AIED
JAMES ST., COVENT GARDEN.

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.

This little treatise is intended as an inducement to young Gardeners
especially, to seek for the reasons on which the operations of their daily
practice are founded, and by which they are regulated. This announcement
is here made, in order to prevent any reader from supposing that the
author has unduly estimated the opinions of those who have benefited by a
long course of application and experience. As, however, there can be no
doubt that there is much to be learned, so is there but little question
that there is also much to be unlearned, in the present state of the
Science of Horticulture; and these pages are offered without hesitation,
as a mite among the accumulating mass of available information on
gardening subjects; and in the hope that some amongst those who are
seeking to extend their knowledge, may at least be stimulated by their
perusal, if they are not otherwise directly benefited