Excerpt from Pictorial Practical Vegetable Growing: A Practical Manual Giving Directions for Laying Out Kitchen Gardens and Allotments, Describing the Value and Use of Manures, Advising as to the Destruction of Pests, Dealing With the Principal Tools and Appliances Treating on the Culture and Best Varietie The victorious vegetable grower is a person who drinks deeply of the joy of life. Artists have their moments of happiness and their moments of despair poets look on the world by turns cheerfully and hopelessly but the vegetable grower follows a path of perennial pleasure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.