Excerpt from How to Make a Vegetable Garden: A Practical and Suggestive Manual for the Home Garden
While sitting in front of our dear old fireplace at dusk one autumn day, with our two girls at my knee, they begged for a story. I told them how the great apple log glowing and crackling before us had once been a small tree, and how it had grown taller each year until its head was higher than the house and its branches were laden with fruit. But it grew too old at last to bear well, so it had to be cut down to make room for younger trees. Its work was not done, however. Just now it is giving us warmth and making the room glow with light. Then its white ashes will be spread about the rose bushes - and next year they will have become part of a beautiful blossom. A look of wonder at the revelation of Nature's perpetuation came into the deep-blue eyes.
Longfellow says, "There is no death; what seems so is transition," and to me this giving, taking and returning by Nature is one of the grandest things in the world. He who is near to Nature's heart, is very near his Creator.
It is the love of all that is outdoors, and Dame Experience's sharp but unforgettable lessons, together with the many things we have learned from books and friends, that have made it possible for us to write this volume. May it make warm friends and help others to enjoy their garden more than ever before. It has been our earnest effort to tell the simple, necessary things, leaving the deep and scientific parts to those who make such things their life-study. I trust, however, that we have left out no links in the chain of the plants' life-history.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге How to Make a Vegetable Garden (Edith Loring Fullerton)