By Eugene Sebastian Delamer
London   George Routledge & Sons
7" by 4.5" viii, 184pp
A delightful little nineteenth century handbook to growing one's own vegetables and herbs by E. S. Delamer.
By Eugene Sebastian Delamer

c1880 The Kitchen Garden; or, The Culture in the Open Ground

London   George Routledge & Sons
7" by 4.5" viii, 184pp
A delightful little nineteenth century handbook to growing one's own vegetables and herbs by E. S. Delamer.
£59.00
: 0.5kgs / : 798R32

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Description

A most handy work, describing the cultivation of plants required in home cuisine. Describing such plants as potatoes, parsnips, chicory, leeks, garlic, tree-onions, oca, Brussel sprouts, asparagus, peas,  spinach, mushrooms, radishes, cucumber, melons, basil, mint, liquorice, rhubarb, samphire. chestnuts, figs and strawberries. 

Written by Eugene Sebastian Delamer, the author of 'The Flower Garden'.

Undated; dated from copies held on Jisc and from the publisher's advertisements.

A new edition of this work. 

Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece. 

With the occasional pencil annotation by a prior owner.

Condition

In the publisher's original boards. Externally generally smart; head and tail of the spine are a little worn exposing the binding, and the corners are bumped. Internally, generally firmly bound, with a little straining to the front hinge. Pages are a little spotted, with the occasional pencil annotation by a prior owner.

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