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ment in practice. When the care of greenhouses, 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 veg- 

 etable 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 seed catalogues. 



Jersey City Heights, N. J. t December 1st, 1X66. 



