This section is from the book "The Gardener V3", by William Thomson. Also available from Amazon: The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener.
What you suggest has often been talked of, but the Edinburgh Council seem perfectly apathetic about horticulture, hence the town has fallen sadly behind in gardening for the people.
Inquiries having been made for a somewhat fuller definition of the meaning of the phrase, "any branch of British Economic Entomology," used in the announcement of a prize of £5, offered by the Royal Horticultural Society for "the best miscellanous collection of any branch of British Economic Entomology," we are requested to state that it relates to such departments of Economic Entomology as concern forests, fields, or gardens; as also to insects injurious to manufactured articles, etc, but that it is not intended to include useful insect products, such as honey.
 
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