Beeton''s Gardening Book - Containing Such Full Practical Information As Will Enable Amateur to

Samuel Beeton (1831-77) published this comprehensive guide to flower, vegetable and fruit gardening in 1874.

List of contents

1. Garden operations; 2. The flower garden; 3. The kitchen garden; 4. Fruit-growing; 5. Pests of the garden; 6. Monthly calendar.

Summary

Samuel Beeton (1831–77), the publishing entrepreneur who made his wife's Book of Household Management one of the bestselling titles of the century, published in 1874 this work, containing 'such full and practical information as will enable the amateur to manage his own garden', and covering flowers, vegetables and fruit.

Product details

• Authors: Samuel Orchart Beeton
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.04.2014
• EAN: 9781108072236
• ISBN: 978-1-108-07223-6
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture; Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Botany; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, Botany & plant sciences, Botany and plant sciences