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THE

AMERICAN HOME GARDEN.

BEING

PRINCIPLES AND RULES FOR THE CULTURE OF

VEGETABLES, FRUITS, FLOWERS, AND SHRUBBERY.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED

BRIEF NOTES ON FARM CROPS, WITH A TABLE OF THEIR AVERAGE
PRODUCT AND CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, by

HARPER & BROTHERS,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.

DEDICATION.

To those young men and women of the Union who would make their present or prospective homes rich with the comforts, bright with the beauties, and fragrant with the sweets that a garden may be made to yield, this work is respectfully dedicated by their sincere friend,

THE AUTHOR.