RURAL HAA'-D-BOOKS.—JVo. I 



THE GARDEN: 



A POCKET MANUAL 



OP 



OR, HOW TO CULTIVATE 



YEGETABLES, FRUITS, AND FLOWERS. 



EMBRACING 



AN EXPOSITION OF THE NATURE AND ACTION OF SOILS AND MANUEES AND THB 

 STETJCTtTRE AND GKOWTH OF PLANTS ; DIRECTIONS FOR THE FORMING A 

 GARDEN ; DESCRIPTION OF IMPLEMENTS AND FIXTURES ; INSTRUC- 

 TIONS FOR SOWING, TRANSPLANTING, BURDING, GRAFTING, AND 

 CULTIVATING VEGETABLES, FRUITS, AND FLO^rtEES ; 



WITH A CHAPTER ON 



BY THE AUTHOR OF 



"HOW TO WEITE," "HOW TO BEHAVE," Etc. 



Gardening was the primitive employment of the first man ; and the first of men, among his 

 descendants, have ever been attached to that occupation. Indeed, we can hardly form an Idea 

 of human felicity, lu which a garden is not one of its most prominent characteristics.— T. G. 



Fessenden. 



Fowler and Wells, Publishers, 



No. 308 BEOADWAT. 



1858. 



