Description: The Vegetable Garden:Illustrations, Descriptions, and Culture By MM.Vilmorin-Andrieux: Published by Ten Speed Press in 1981, California; 620 pages: ISBN # 9 780898 150414. This book is brand new and has never been read. A classic of horticultural literature first published in English in 1885, this book describes cultivation techniques that pre-date the days of chemical gardening and presents an astounding array of descriptions of plants (many of which are now gone), highlighted with hundreds of extraordinary engravings that underscore a peak of horticultural art. Written from over a hundred years of personal experience by the senior members of the Vilmorin family (proprietors of one of the oldest and largest seed houses in the world), The Vegetable Garden describes hundreds of vegetables and flavoring herbs with meticulous attention to their botanical classifications, cultural requirements and culinary uses. The cultivation directions, unequalled before or since, were from an unhurried time before current food raising techniques developed, and the many rare and now unobtainable plants it describes provide fascinating insights for today's gardener into the delicate balances required in the garden.
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Publication Name: Ten Speed Press
Original Language: English
Vintage: Yes
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Book Title: Vegetable Garden
Item Length: 8.8in.
Item Height: 1.5in.
Item Width: 6in.
Author: M. Vilmorin-Andrieux
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Features: Reprint
Topic: Vegetables, Fruit
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Publication Year: 1981
Genre: Gardening
Item Weight: 13 Oz
Number of Pages: 620 Pages
