Excerpt from Beeton's Dictionary of Everyday Gardening: Constituting a Popular Cyclopædia of the Theory and Practice of Horticulture and Floriculture in All Their Various Branches; To Which Is Added a Monthly Calendar of Garden Work Throughout the Year<br><br>IN presenting this edition of beeton's dictionary or every day gardening to the public, the Publishers have much pleasure in calling attention to the fact that it has been thoroughly re moulded and very considerably extended by the introduction of some hundreds of newly-written paragraphs which found no place in preceding Editions, and which render that which is now in the reader's hands a complete and reliable' book of reference on every subject directly and indirectly connected with Gardening and the Garden.<br><br>The art of Gardening has been attractive to man from the earliest times of which we possess a record, and it may be said that from man's first appearance on the world's stage until the present time it has been a pursuit that has been earnestly and eagerly followed, and possesses a fascination for men of all ranks and conditions in life, which suffers no abatement, but is for ever on the increase.<br><br>As every Gardener must be made, no man being born so, those whose making lacks assistance from oral instruction and ocular demonstration, must perforce fall back on some guide to gardening which will tell him what to do and how and when to do it, and hence it is that so many books and treatises on Gardening exist, with which the present volume will bear favourable comparison on account of the low price at which it is offered, combined with the extent and variety of information contained in its pages, and the illustrations of the numerous flowers, vegetables, trees, and plants with which those pages have been enriched and embellished.<br><br>The Dictionary form, as originally adopted, has been adhered to, as being that which is best suited for easy reference, and the greatest care has been taken in the selection of the terms under which the information given has been afforded. It is sincerely hoped that the explanations in every case will be found to be both plain and practical and calculated in every way to convey sound instruction to the most uninitiated.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.