し 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 BY ALEXANDER WATSON. Illustrated. "And the Lord God planted a garden."-Gen., ii., 8. NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE. 1859. 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. SB93 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. M363171 |