Intensive Culture of Vegetables on the French System
The topic of French gardening was all the rage in England before WWI. This is one of three books on the topic we have discovered.
French Market-Gardening
In the late 19th century Parisian market gardeners developed novel procedures to produce out of season vegetables under glass and very high productivity outdoors using raised beds and abundant horse manure compost. These methods inspired the raised bed intensive system…
The French Garden
The French system of intensive market-gardening aroused great interest in England which is why this practical treatise was published. It is the librarian's opinion that this usually practiced Asian system was brought to France by colonists who took over Vietnam…