Excerpt from Southern Gardener's Practical Manual Since White's "Gardening for the South," first published in 1856, there has been no work which furnished a reliable, practical guide to the southern gardener. There are works which treat instructively of the scientific principles involved in the art of gardening. There are others which, emanating from the northern states, are valuable for that section of our country, but, owing to variations of soil and climatic conditions, they possess little value as a guide to the southern gardener. The object of this work is to furnish a reliable, practical guide to those who desire to avail themselves of the wonderful facilities afforded by our sunny Southland for supplying the family table with fresh vegetables from the kitchen-garden every day in the year. Fifty years of successful experience in gardening and fruit-growing on both a domestic and a commercial scale, inspires some measure of confidence in my ability and right to speak ex cathedra on the subject. During an official life of thirty years, in close touch with the tillers of the soil, and through a voluminous correspondence, covering answers to letters of inquiry from farmers and horticulturists, I have been impressed with the need of a work of the character of the one now attempted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.