The American Gardener Author:William Cobbett Subtitle: Or, a Treatise on the Situation, Soil, Fencing and Laying-Out of Gardens; on the Making and Managing of Hot-Beds and Green-Houses; and on the Propagation and Cultivation of the Several Sorts of Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits and Flowers General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1821 Original Publisher: C. Clement S... more »ubjects: Gardening Flower gardening Kitchen gardens Gardening / General Gardening / Flowers / General Gardening / Garden Design Gardening / Landscape Gardening / Reference Gardening / Regional / General Gardening / Techniques Gardening / Vegetables Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. On the Making and Managing of Hot Beds and Green-houses. HOT-BEDS. 63. I Am not about to lay down rules for persons who can afford to have cucumbers in March. This amounts to something little short of folly in England : in America it would be something worse. But, Hot-Beds, as things of real use, are more necessary in America than in England ; because in the former country, the winter will not suffer to exist in the open air many plants, which are wanted to start with the warm sun, and which plants the winter will suffer to exist in the open air in England. The American Spring bears no resemblance to that of England, which comes on, by degress from the end of February to the beginning of June: while the American Spring cannot be said to be of a fortnight's duration. There is in fact, no Spring : there is a Winter. a Summer and an Autumn, but no Spring; and none would ever have been thought of, if the word had not come from Europe along with many others equally inapplicable. 64. This sudden transition from a winter, which not only puts a total stop to, but effaces ...« less