This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V27", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
By Robert Barnewell Roosevelt. Orange Judd Company, New York. New Edition.
When "Ten Acres Enough " appeared many went wild over the enormous profits supposed to be made out of a few acres of ground, and thousands lost about all they had saved in trying to do what the author of that work said had been done. They had certainly enough before they got through. This book is a capital take-off of the extravagances of that ten-acre affair, and the fact that a new edition is called for shows that it is well appreciated. We do not know of a pleas-anter book to while away an hour in a garden chair.
 
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