Handbook of Gardening for New Zealand: With Chapters on Poultry and Bee-Keeping (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Handbook of Gardening for New Zealand: With Chapters on Poultry and Bee-Keeping<br><br>The first edition of this Manual of Gardening having sold out and a favourable reception having been accorded it by the public of New Zealand the author has been encouraged to present a second edition which has been carefully revised and enlarged. Suggestions kindly offered by experts and others have been acted upon where practicable. A large addition has been made to the directions for selecting planting and for the general management of fruit trees. Wherever instructions in other sections of the work were not considered sufficiently explicit the defect has been remedied. Instructions for Fern Growing have been enlarged upon by request. A chapter on Orange Culture has been added also one on miscellaneous subjects which embraces a large amount of useful information including a chapter on Fowl Keeping.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.