The New American Gardener, Containing Practical Directions on the Culture of Fruits and Vegetables - Including Landscape and Ornamental Gardening, Grape-Vines, Silk, Strawberries, &C &C #262523

The importance and utility of horticulture, or the art of cultivating those products of the soil which are used in domestic economy, require no elaborate exposition. The greatest blessings which a kind Providence can bestow on man, in his sublunary state of existence, are, health of body and peace of mind and the pursuits of gardening eminent ly conduce to these. Gardening was the primitive employ ment of the first man; and the first of men, among his descendants, have ever been attached to that occupation. Indeed, we can hardly form an idea of human felicity, in which a garden is not one of its most prominent character istics. Gardening is not only an innocent and healthy, but a profitable occupation. It is not alone by the money Which' 13 made, but also by the money which is saved, that the profits of a pursuit should be estimated. Where a good garden constitutes part of a rural establishment, and the culinary uses of its productions are well understood, the field or the market furnishes a proportionably small part of the provisions necessary for family consumption. I con sider, said D siderable importanc various kinds, are plenty of them at run into the error, of eating flesh in to ers, as well as they need not grudge the labour of tending them, which may be done at odd intervals of time, which would other wise chance to be consumed in needless loitering.