Vegetables for Exhibition and Home Consumption

A handy book containing full details of the Cultivation of all Vegetables grown for Exhibition and the supply of the Household in the United Kingdom. With a Calendar of Kitchen Garden operations for twelve months; short descriptions of and remedies for insect and fungoid pests affecting the crops dealt with; and numerous illustrations of the finest types of Vegetables

London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, 1899.

First Edition (of many); 8vo. pp. xiii, [1], 216, [7 adverts]; publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, corners bumped. Yellow printed endpapers. Numerous in-text photographs and illustrations. A VG+ copy. Collection of articles published by the author on the subject of growing vegetables for exhibition and the supply of the home, with a calendar of garden work, a chapter on dealing with the insects and fungoid pests most destructive to garden crops.