Five Acres Too Much: A Truthful Elucidation of the Attractions of the Country, and a Careful Consideration of the Question of Profit and Loss as Involved in Amateur Farming, with Much Valuable Advice and Instruction to Those about Purchasing Large Or Small Places in the Rural Districts |
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... to Act of Congress , in the year 1869 , by ROBERT B. ROOSEVELT , In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York . ΤΟ THE WRITERS OF BOOKS ON FARMING , GARDENING , AL 3167.4.25.
... to Act of Congress , in the year 1869 , by ROBERT B. ROOSEVELT , In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York . ΤΟ THE WRITERS OF BOOKS ON FARMING , GARDENING , AL 3167.4.25.
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R. B. Roosevelt. ΤΟ THE WRITERS OF BOOKS ON FARMING , GARDENING , HORTICULTURE , AGRICUL- TURE , AND FLORICULTURE , THIS WORK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED , AS AN EVIDENCE OF WHAT CAN BE DONE AND WHAT WONDERFUL RESULTS CAN BE PRODUCED BY A ...
R. B. Roosevelt. ΤΟ THE WRITERS OF BOOKS ON FARMING , GARDENING , HORTICULTURE , AGRICUL- TURE , AND FLORICULTURE , THIS WORK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED , AS AN EVIDENCE OF WHAT CAN BE DONE AND WHAT WONDERFUL RESULTS CAN BE PRODUCED BY A ...
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... Gardening for Profit ...... 97 CHAPTER VII . THE FLOWER GARDEN . Architectural Skill set at defiance by practical Difficulties . — Result of too much Greenness . - A Disappointment .... CHAPTER VIII . POULTRY . 111 Strange Attack of ...
... Gardening for Profit ...... 97 CHAPTER VII . THE FLOWER GARDEN . Architectural Skill set at defiance by practical Difficulties . — Result of too much Greenness . - A Disappointment .... CHAPTER VIII . POULTRY . 111 Strange Attack of ...
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... Gardener . - No dearth of Onions . - Transported at the Result . - The last of the family Horse . He closes his Career by a wonderful Feat in draw- ing Teeth ........ .Page 233 CHAPTER XVIII . PREPARATIONS FOR REMOVAL . The window Garden ...
... Gardener . - No dearth of Onions . - Transported at the Result . - The last of the family Horse . He closes his Career by a wonderful Feat in draw- ing Teeth ........ .Page 233 CHAPTER XVIII . PREPARATIONS FOR REMOVAL . The window Garden ...
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... garden should be filled with delicious vegetables , fruits , and berries , the earliest and best of their kinds ; there should be a magnificent bed of asparagus - that king of the kitchen garden - a dozen long rows of strawberries ...
... garden should be filled with delicious vegetables , fruits , and berries , the earliest and best of their kinds ; there should be a magnificent bed of asparagus - that king of the kitchen garden - a dozen long rows of strawberries ...
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