Peter Henderson and Co's Wholesale Price List of Vegetable Seeds, Vegetable Plants, Tools and Fertilizers, for Market Gardeners or Truckers

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Excerpt from Peter Henderson and Co's Wholesale Price List of Vegetable Seeds, Vegetable Plants, Tools and Fertilizers, for Market Gardeners or Truckers: From August 15th to October 15th, 1894It is doubtful if any book on agriculture has ever been written in this country, of which the writers have had opportunities for such extensive and varied experience as have the authors of this work. William crozier is, perhaps now better known than any other farmer on this continent, principally from the fact that for the past twenty years the exhibi tion of his fine stock and other farm products has enabled him to take more prizes than any other working farmer in the country, and that to-day the dairy and farm at Northport, L. I., on which these products have been raised, are models worthy of imitation by the tens of thousands engaged in farming who have failed to make it the profitable business that it has been, and still continues to be, to Mr. Crozier. The co-author, peter henderson, the senior member of our firm, although not a farmer, has long been considered as is well known, an authority on all matters relating to practical garden work. His book, Gardening for Profit, now in the hands of probably readers, has shown how to make gardening pay. In the present work, Mr. Henderson tells in plain words the manner of growing such Vegetables and Fruits as can best be made profitable On the farm, besides interchanging with Mr. Crozier his opinion on such operations of the farm as his long practice in cultiva ting the soil enables him to do.Mr. Crozier and Mr. Henderson have had the project in contemplation, of getting up a work on American farming for the past ten years, but both being engaged in the active work of their large Operations on the farm and garden, it is doubtful if they would ever have got together to accomplish it, unless the idea had been conceived of getting the work up in conversational form, the words as spoken being taken down by a stenographer. This simplified the work of book making greatly, and it is believed that given in this way, it has been made plainer and more interesting to the reader, than if written in the usual manner. The benefit of this plan is derived from the fact that the answer often suggests the question, just such as the reader would be likely to ask, but with no one at his elbow to answer. It is here answered to the satisfaction of the questioner, or if not, the question is repeated un til the subject has been made clear.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.