Author : H. M. Stringfellow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1330527275
The New Horticulture (Classic Reprint) by H. M. Stringfellow Pdf
Excerpt from The New Horticulture With feelings of the deepest appreciation for their invaluable service in behalf of New Horticulture, I now dedicate this new and revised edition. First, to Farm and Ranch, the only journal in the whole country that nearly twenty years ago opened its columns to what all others considered the visionary "pipe dreams" of a crack-brained enthusiast and declined to publish, thereby affording me opportunity to present these great natural horticultural truths, and save them from perishing from off the face of the earth. Second, to Thomas L. Brunk, then professor of horticulture at the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College, the very first man to whom I confided them, who at once recognized their inestimable value, and the next year verified a part of them at the Maryland Experiment Station, to which he had been called, and from which he was discharged for wasting his time and issuing a bulletin on such wild vagaries. Disgusted at such blind prejudice, he embarked in another line of business successfully. Third, to E. W. Kirkpatrick, the nurseryman and public-spirited citizen, whom all Texans love to honor, who was not only equally prompt to see these great truths but at once put them into practice, recommending them also in his catalogue to his customers, and boldly advocating them in public. To those three, the fruit-growers of the world owe a lasting debt of gratitude; but for them, they would still be in the bondage of that trio of horticultural tyrants, the plow, the cultivator and the pruning knife, who with their prime minister, the little bacterial devil, "brown rot," have from time out of mind levied a tribute upon their earnings that far surpasses in amount the fortune of a Rockefeller. 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.