Excerpt from The American Home Garden: Being Principles and Rules for the Culture of Vegetables, Fruits
It is related of one Eliezar, in proof of the vastness of his knowledge, that "he made not less than three hundred constitutions concerning the manner of cultivating cucumbers." The author of the following work has no ambition to rival or to imitate Eliezar. He has aimed to present, in a digested and plain form, such directions and information as will, if applied, enable any one who has a garden to supply the home table with its pleasant and healthful products at the least possible outlay of labor and expense, and add choice fruits and flowers to the family stock of rational, cheap, every-day enjoyments.
He has sought to instruct his readers by general principles and directions rather than by extended details, believing that the good sense of those for whom he writes will readily and understandingly apply them, with or without modifications, as the circumstances of soil, season, or latitude may require. With much less labor he might have made a book twice as large, and not half as intelligible.
The time of planting the principal corn-crop forms an isothermal line throughout the various latitudes, and may therefore serve as a kind of equator for the cultivator in respect to the times, earlier or later, for putting in garden crops; and this circumstance has been, to some extent, taken advantage of in the directions given in this work, so that it will be found intelligible and suitable in any latitude or locality. Adaptation to this generality of use has also been consulted in the enumeration of insects, and their remedies or preventives.
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