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HOW AND WHAT TO GROW IN A KITCHEN GARDEN OF ONE ACRE.

DARLINGTON AND MOLL.

THE Poultry Yard.

HOW TO FURNISH AND MANAGE IT.

BY W. ATLEE BURPEE.

Full descriptions and large illustrations given of the leading varieties of Land and Water Fowls. It also contains chapters on POULTRY HOUSES, SELECTION AND MATING OF STOCK, WHAT AND HOW TO FEED, GENERAL MANAGEMENT, DRESSING AND SHIPPING POULTRY, EGGS AND CHICKENS, DIRECTIONS FOR CAPONIZING, DISEASES, HOW TO RAISE GOOD TURKEYS, ETC., ETC. Fully Illustrated.

THE NEW EDITION for 1888 contains, besides the above, an illustrated chapter on the training and care of SCOTCH COLLY or SHEPHERD DOGS, also new improved plans of Poultry Houses, with illustration.

Price, 50 CTS. in paper; 75 CTS. bound in cloth. Sent, postpaid, by mail, upon receipt of price by the Publishers,

W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., PHILADELPHIA, PA., and at 133 Cannon St., London, E. C., England.

☛ BURPEE’S ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE of THOROUGHBRED LIVE STOCK and FANCY POULTRY sent free, on application, to all interested.

HOW AND WHAT TO GROW IN A KITCHEN GARDEN OF ONE ACRE.

BY E. D. DARLINGTON AND L. M. MOLL.

EDITED BY W. ATLEE BURPEE.

PUBLISHED BY W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., NOS. 475 AND 477 NORTH FIFTH STREET, NOS. 476 AND 478 YORK AVENUE, PHILADELPHIA.

COPYRIGHTED, 1888, BY W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., PHILADELPHIA, PA.

In Burpee’s Farm Annual for 1887 we offered cash prizes for the two best essays, to be sent us by October, 1887, upon the subject, “HOW AND WHAT TO GROW IN A KITCHEN GARDEN OF ONE ACRE.” In its original form E. D. DARLINGTON’S essay covered more fully than any other the operations and best methods to pursue in the management of the garden, and was awarded the first prize. Being desirous, however, of making this work not only practical but thoroughly complete in all departments, and from personal acquaintance with Mr. Darlington and his gardening operations, together with the fact that for some years he had tested numerous varieties of vegetables for us, we arranged with him to entirely revise and enlarge his essay. In compliance with our request he has entered more into detail in the directions for culture, and has added impartial descriptions of the varieties that he has found best adapted both to the Kitchen Garden and the table. To make the treatise more complete, he prepared a diagram of his own kitchen garden, which is one acre in size, as laid out for a year’s work. Some varieties grown are not marked in the diagram, as they are worked in as parts of other rows, but this is all fully explained in the body of his treatise.

To add to the value of the book as a plain and practical guide for the novice in gardening, we have had illustrations engraved showing the two plans of hotbeds, the methods of storing roots for winter use, etc. We have also inserted engravings, mostly drawn from nature, of the leading varieties of vegetables described in the text, that the gardener may have an accurate idea of the form of the different varieties and may be able to tell whether his products are of the right type.

We take pleasure, also, in publishing the essay of Miss L. M. MOLL, of Illinois, which was awarded the second prize. We are glad to note that she has been explicit in describing the culture of some of the less generally grown varieties of salads and herbs which are valuable adjuncts to the table, and upon which Mr. Darlington has failed to treat. Some of the methods described in this essay are, however, unnecessarily laborious. For instance, the wide bed of perennials, as described, would require considerable hand

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