THE FAMILY KITCHEN GARDENER, CONTAINING PLAIN AND ACCURATE DESCRIPTIONS OF ALL THE DIFFERENT SPECIES AND VARIETIES OF CULINARY VEGETABLES; WITH THEIR BOTANICAL, ENGLISH, FRENCH, AND GERMAN NAMES, ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED, AND THE BEST MODE OF CULTIVATING THEM, IN THE GARDEN OR UNDER GLASS; WITH A DESCRIPTION OF IMPLEMENTS AND MEDICINAL HERBS IN GENERAL USE. ALSO, DESCRIPTIONS AND CHARACTERS OF THE MOST SELECT FRUITS, THEIR MANAGEMENT, PROPAGATION, ETC.
Book Details + Condition: C.M. Saxton, Barker and Co. (New York). Early Edition, 1860. Hardcover. 216 pages with advertisements. Illustrated. Scarce 19th-century herbal listing numerous herbs containing culinary and medicinal descriptions and applications. Firm binding; wear to boards; chafed spine ends; lean to book; name to inside front board, with scribbles to rear free endpaper; darkening and age-spotting to pages (some more so than others); interior is otherwise clean and free of markings.
