UNIFORM WITII THE PRESENT VOLUME, Post Svo, cloth limp, 2s. 6d. OUR KITCHEN GARDEN: The Plants we Grow, and How we Cook them. BY TOM JERROLD, Author of "The Garden that Paid the Rent," etc. Extract from Preface. "In joining together practical directions for growing and for cooking the more ordinary vegetable products of 'Our Kitchen Garden,' we hope to give an impetus to the more general use of a cheap, nutritious, and tasty portion of daily alimentation which has everything to recommend it. "Our common vegetables are easily grown and cheap, and were they consumed in treble quantity, our fields could still send forth an ample supply; their cultivation is under ordinary circumstances remunerative, often highly so, and offers an almost unlimited field for the enterprise and talents of the cultivator, who in this branch of his business need have no fear of competition from the less heavily handicapped farmers of the Far West." CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY, W. PREFACE. I HAVE endeavoured to show in this book how an Amateur, without much experience, may dispense with the skilled labour which is often difficult, and sometimes impossible, to obtain. By carefully watching once or twice the proceedings of a thoroughly good gardener in each of the operations I have described, an Amateur should learn practically enough about the work, if he or she be a true lover of horticulture, to get even unskilled labour (when under personal supervision from the directions here given) to make the garden fairly remunerative and wholly enjoyable. If I have seemed to dwell upon some subjects with undue emphasis, it is with the knowledge that if an Amateur can supply to his friends or his visitors any particular fruit, vegetable, or flower a few weeks earlier or later than the ordinary market, he earns (among his friends) an enviable fame; but if he succeeds in two or three specialities, his reputation as a practical gardener is established for ever! |