FARMING FOR PROFIT 



FRUITS, VEGETABLES 

 AND FLOWERS 



ANON-TECHNICAL MANUAL FOR THEIR 

 CULTURE, MANAGEMENT AND IMPROVEMENT 



BY 



FRANK D. GARDNER 



PROFESSOR OF AGRONOMY, PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE 

 AND EXPERIMENT STATION 



ASSISTED BY 



R. L. WATTS PROF. L. C. CORBETT 



Dean and Director, School of Agriculture and Expert- In charge of Horticultural and Pomological Investi- 

 ment Station, Pennsylvania State College. gations, United States Department of Agriculture. 



PAUL WORK 



Superintendent and Instructor, Department of Veg- 

 etabl* Gardening, Cornell University. 



C. W. WAID 



Extension Specialist, Michigan Agricultural College. 



H. M. WARE 



Practical Mushroom Grower, Delaware. 



W. W. STOCKBERGER 



Physiologist in Drug and Poisonous Plant Investi- 

 gation, United States Department of Agriculture. 



M. G. KAINS 



Professor of Horticulture, Pennsylvania State College. 



F. F. MOON 



Professor of Forest Engineering College, of Forestry, 

 Syracuse University. 



JOHN P. STEWART, PH.D. 



Professor of Experimental Pomology, Pennsylvania 

 State College. 



F. C. SEARS 



Professor of Pomology, Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College. 



HERBERT J. WEBBER, PH.D. 



Dean of Graduate School of Tropical Agriculture, 

 University of California. 



C. A. REED 



Nut Culturist, United States Department of 

 Agriculture. 



F. G. DE QUEVEDO 



Pennsylvania State College. 



A. W. COWELL 



In charge of Landscape Gardening, Pennsylvania 

 State College 



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