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economical methods to produ.ee the finest crops — methods, 

 that -sve believe to be superior to those in general use in 

 private gardens, and which may, with profit, be followed. 



Our estimates of labor, I trust, will not be overlooked ; 

 for, I know, it is no uncommon thing for gentlemen to 

 expect their gardeners to do impossibilities in this way. 

 The private garden cannot be properly cropped and cared 

 for with less labor than can our market gardens, and these, 

 we know, require nearly the labor of one man to an acre, 

 and that too, with every labor-saving arrangement in 

 practice. When the care of green-houses, or graperies, is 

 in addition to this, extra labor must be given accordingly, 

 or something must suffer. 



The greatest difficulty that has presented itself to me 

 in giving the directions for operations, has been the dates ; 

 in a country having such an area and diversity of temper- 

 ature as ours, directions could not well be given for the 

 extremes, so as the best thing to be done under the cir- 

 cumstances, I have taken the latitude of New York as a 

 basis, and my readers must modify my instructions to suit 

 their locality. The number of varieties of each vegetable 

 described here, is very small in comparison with those that 

 are known, or the seeds of which are offered for sale. I 

 have given only such, as I have found most serviceable. 

 Those who wish for a more extended list are referred to 

 the excellent work by Fearing Burr, Jr., on Garden 

 Vegetables. 



South Bergen, JV". J., 



December 1st, 1866. 



