THE PRINCIPLES OF VEGETABLE - 

 GARDENING 



PART I— GENERAL VIEW 

 CHAPTER I 



TEE LAY-OUT OF TEE PLANTATION 



Vegetable -GARDENING, or olericulture, is the art 

 and business of raising kitchen -garden vegetables, and 

 the applications of the various sciences thereto. The 

 term kitchen -garden vegetable, or ^Vegetable" in the 

 gardener's sense, is impossible of definition. It is 

 approximately true to say that the term applies to the 

 edible part of an annual or at least an herbaceous 

 plant. Vegetables -are not often used in the dessert, 

 and therefore belong more properly to the kitchen than 

 do the fruits. There is exception to this in the melon; 

 and it is significant that this is often included 

 with the fruits by European writers. The only com- 

 plete idea of the use of the term is to be obtained 

 from a detailed catalogue of the products which are 

 called vegetables, and this inventory will be found on 

 a later page ; in the meantime, it may be well to say 

 that leading vegetables are potatoes, cabbages, onions, 



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