The Home Garden

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 23, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 24.

“The Home Garden,” a book on vegetable and small fruit-growing, for the use of the amateur gardener, by Eben E. Rexford, author of “The Four Seasons of the Garden.” Price, $1.25 net. J. B. Lippencott Co., Philadelphia and London.

This is a beautiful little book; nicely printed, and the story well told. Mr. Rexford is a well-known author, and those who have read his writings will expect much of the little volume. It is an inspiration to those who are so situated that they can have gardens, to plant them, care for them, and it ought to be an inspiration to those who are shut in-doors to cultivate a little piece of land however small. All the various things necessary in the cultivation of a garden are told in this volume. The location in the soil, the preparation of the garden, planning and planting of the garden, the implements needed; weeding and transplanting, hot-bed and cold-frame, insecticides and fungicides, what to grow, herbs and miscellaneous plants, asparagus and rhubarb, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, currants and gooseberries, grapes, the garden's calendar,—all are treated. There are eight illustrations. Every one who has a farm or garden or farm papers, and yet one of the difficulties with these is that it is not always convenient to tell you just what to do. You want something that was told a few months before, and the paper is gone, but the book stays with you, and it gives good instruction all the year round.