IT has been the aim of the author in preparing this work to consider the principles involved in vegetable produc tion and at the same time to furnish sufficient detailed information. To Show definitely the connection between principles and practice. The book has been written pri marily as a text, so arranged and developed as to meet the needs of collegiate undergraduate students in general courses in horticulture. In following out this plan the work under consideration treats: First, the problems involved in the production of a supply of vegetables for the home table.
Second, the production on a field scale of those vegetable crops that are generally grown as such.