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BOOK L 



PART V. 



USEFUL OR CULINARY GARDENING. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Horticulture may be subdivided into culinary or use- 

 ful gardening, including the production of fruits and vegeta- 

 bles for the kitchen; ornamental gardening, including the 

 production of vegetables for show, beauty, and amusement, ' as 

 parterres or flower gardens, or instruction, as in botanic garden- 

 ing; and, nursery gardening, which comprehends every 

 thing relating to propagating and rearing either trees, shrubs, 

 or plants. 



Culinary gardening, the branch to be here considered, is se- 

 parated from Agriculture on the one hand, only by the differ- 

 ence in the implements used for cultivation; and from Orna- 

 mental and Nursery gardening on the other, by the difference 



