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Kindle booklet 'A Guide To Growing Figs Under Glass'

terry_upstate_ny
11 years ago

I recently found and read this 39 page book on Amazon it can be downloaded with Kindle...it only cost $3.39. It is about growing fig trees in a greenhouse...if I'm not mistaken it was written around 1900 (couldn't find the publshers date on my kindle). He describes growing the figs like a grape cordon vine...also a chapter on potted figs. He recommends horse...sheep...guano manures...manure teas...very interesting reading if you can get past the archaic language in some parts (I couldn't understand what he meant by syringing the fig leaves to keep away the red spider)

It would have been nice if he had included more illustrations of the fig greenhouse...it must have been a thing of beauty.

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