The Manuring of Market Garden Crops

Hardcover. Fair. Vinton and Co., London, 1903; first edition in book form, the content reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, Vol. XXVII, part 4; 8vo, 143 x 220mm; pp 120, 20 photographic plates of plants and field crops; ... ... ... BOUND TOGETHER WITH ... ... ... The Conservation of Garden Produce, by C W Mayhew, County of Northumberland Education Committee, 1914; 3pp plus 28 blank pages bound in, presumably for notes (though nothing present). ... ... ... ... half maroon leather, cloth sides badly faded and front cover detached, interally clean and firm and with a few relevant annotations in ink, hence with the damaged binding a copy in fair condition only. ... ... ... ... The main work is a report on the first eight years study of the enquiry of the RHS into the efficacy of the substantial quantities of dung used by market gardeners. A large number of different vegetable crops and a few fruits were grownusing different approaches and each such section shows the details and costs of each approach (generally dung, potash and sodium nitrate in varying combinations and amounts) and the weights of the resulting crops. The aim, the opening says, was to 'ascertain how far and under what conditions nitrate of soda could be used to advantage in market gardening'.