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. C By Robert B. Roosevelt ... |
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... Flower . - Remarkable Results 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 ...
... Flower . - Remarkable Results 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 ...
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... Flower . - A Thing of Beauty . — Ap- pearance contrasted with Perfume . - The Fox is the Finder .. 179 CHAPTER XIV . A SECOND DIGRESSION - FAIRY TALES FOR LITTLE FOLKS . Retributive Justice . - Don't be such a Goose ....... CHAPTER XV ...
... Flower . - A Thing of Beauty . — Ap- pearance contrasted with Perfume . - The Fox is the Finder .. 179 CHAPTER XIV . A SECOND DIGRESSION - FAIRY TALES FOR LITTLE FOLKS . Retributive Justice . - Don't be such a Goose ....... CHAPTER XV ...
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... Flower CHAPTER XIX . 253 A GREAT RUNNER . A perfect Jonah . Very fine , only don't do it again . —A Gourd runs away with its Master . - A changeable Crimson . - A new Specimen of Flax , Red one Year and Yellow the next ......... 266 ...
... Flower CHAPTER XIX . 253 A GREAT RUNNER . A perfect Jonah . Very fine , only don't do it again . —A Gourd runs away with its Master . - A changeable Crimson . - A new Specimen of Flax , Red one Year and Yellow the next ......... 266 ...
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... flowers , its waving grass , its early vegetables , and its luscious fruits , is most at- tractive ; and where a residence can be obtained which combines all these luxuries with pure air , and no chills and fever , and which is not too ...
... flowers , its waving grass , its early vegetables , and its luscious fruits , is most at- tractive ; and where a residence can be obtained which combines all these luxuries with pure air , and no chills and fever , and which is not too ...
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... flowers that Nature , if left alone to her parsimo- nious way , would scatter over an acre ; gas is in the residences , pigs root in the public roads , and early peas are combined with plank side - walks . This un- equaled concentration ...
... flowers that Nature , if left alone to her parsimo- nious way , would scatter over an acre ; gas is in the residences , pigs root in the public roads , and early peas are combined with plank side - walks . This un- equaled concentration ...
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Page i - 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. By ROBERT B. ROOSEVELT, Author of "Game Fish of North America," "Superior Fishing," "Game Birds,