French Market Gardening 



WITH PRACTICAL DETAILS OF INTENSIVE 

 CULTIVATION FOR ENGLISH GROWERS 



By JOHN WEATHERS. With an Introduction by Wm. Robinson 



This is tbe only worlt in tlie Englisli Language dealing tliorouglily with the French System 

 of Intensive Gardening as practised in Parisian Marliet Gardens. 



P°st Free PrirP O I ft npf Foreign Postage 



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Gardeners' Chronicle. — "Mr Weathers has done his work in a thoroughly 

 practical manner that is both interesting and useful. He has made out 

 a case for French market gardening." 



The Garden. — "The author is to be congratulated on the comprehensive, 

 inclusive, and thorough character of this work. Every point of import- 

 ance in relation to the intensive culture of choice vegetables in winter 

 and spring, and fruit in summer, in the Parisian market gardens, is 

 impartially and effectively discussed and plainly set forth ; so that 

 anyone who may be seriously contemplating the taking up of this work 

 may find in the pages of this book all it is possible to learn from 

 reading alone." ^ 



/Scottish Gardener. — " We heartily commend the book and are sure that those 

 who follow it's teaching will in ordinary circumstances reach success." 



Morning Post. — " It is a practical book." 



Birmingham Fast. — " An exhaustive account abounding in practical hints.'' 



Pall Mall Gazette. — "The best book we have seen ... is exhaustive and 

 comprehensive both." 



Standard. — "A more complete work on intensive cultivation than the many 

 cheap booklets previously issued. ... It is the work of a thoroughly 

 trained gardener ; sure to be helpful to all interested in the question." 



Morning Leader.— '"'Fiencb. Market Gardening,' by Mr John Weathers, is 

 the best book on the subject that has yet been published in this country. 

 It is well written, and what iS 'more important, well arranged, and the 

 information given in it is just what most readers would want to know. 

 Mr Weathers is to be congratulated on having written an excellent 

 book." 



Westminster Gazette. — "An excellent book on Market Gardening." 



H. W.S. (Suffolk). — " I have been reading your excellent book on the subject 

 with great interest." 



A.G.B. (Ruabon). — "I think it is the best work on French Gardening yet 

 published and should be read by everyone interested in intensive culture." 



Reynolds's Newspaper. — " All who have a desire to embark in that form of 

 culture known as French Gardening vsdU do well to first obtain and read 

 a book on the subject written by Mr John Weathers, F.R.H.S., and 

 published by Mr John Murray." 



The Field. — " We welcome this book as an authoritative treatise on a subject 

 about which much nonsense has been printed in daily papers and 

 pamphlets." 



LONDON : JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W. 



