Excerpt from Gardening: An Elementary School Text Treating of the Science and Art of Vegetable Growing<br><br>The first part of the book deals chiefly with the most important facts and principles of growth and repro duction in garden plants. The deliberate aim is to give the pupil an appreciation of the plant as a living thing and an understanding of how it lives. The later chap ters deal chiefly with the various garden crops and the practical work of growing them.<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.