Guide to Cultivating Melons Under Glass e-bog

This vintage volume contains a complete guide to growing melons under glass, with information on construction, draw-backs and benefits, diseases and pests, planting, harvesting, and all other related aspects. Easy-to-digest and profusely illustrated, this timeless guide will be of utility to novice growers, and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: "e;Growing Melons in Dung-Beds or Pits"e;, "e;Sowing the Seed, and Management of Young Plants"e;, "e;Training and Stopping"e;, "e;Soil and Planting, etc."e;, Moulding Up-Temperature"e;, "e;Impregnation, Watering, etc., "e;Culture in Melon-Houses Trained on Wires near the Glass-Form of House, Depth of Soil, etc."e;, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on growing fruit.