The book of market gardening

Preface

Lord Onslow's Committee, appointed in 1903 to investigate subjects connected with commercial fruit culture, recommended that a sub-department of the Board of Agriculture be established to deal with horticulture and pomology. If substantial official recognition be accorded to that suggestion, important benefits may accrue to market gardening as a form of intensive cultivation which greatly concerns landowners, tenants, and the public. Parliamentary aid is urgently needed in the promotion of many reforms, and with such assistance on judicious lines considerable and profitable advance might be made.

In the following pages an attempt has been made to indicate the directions in which cultivators can help their own progress with advantage, and to show the methods adopted by many growers who have made commercial gardening a highly successful business. The author's only object has been to set out in plain language the results of thirty years' practical experience and close study in the United Kingdom and on the Continent.

Cultural details of all the principal crops are fully dealt with in other manuals of this series, •

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