The American Home Garden - Being Principles and Rules for the Culture of Vegetables, Fruits #250309

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.