This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V28", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
By J. J. H. Gregory. Mr. Gregory is one of those members of the seed trade of whom the profession may be proud. He is not only a gentleman who has been eminently successful as a business man, but is well known in the walks of science, and to those who take a pleasure in general intelligence in its broadest sense. This combination of science and practice is by no means common, especially among bookmakers ; and this fact renders this treatise on fertilizers the more valuable. It is a paper-covered, small octavo pamphlet, of 116 pages - paper-covered, we presume, in order that it might be sold cheap and widely circulated, and thus do the more good. Yet one cannot but regret that a book so intrinsically valuable should not have been thought worthy of binding and putting in regular library shape. Paper-covered - pamphlet-like - books are rarely preserved for any length of time. In this Mr. Gregory tells how to compound formulas for artificial manures - where the materials come from, and where to get them in the cheapest form.
 
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