Excerpt from Illustrated Hand Book for the Farm and Garden for 1882: Containing a Complete List of the Best Known and Most Popular Varieties of Garden, Field and Flower Seeds, With Directions for Their Culture; Also, a Large Assortment of Plants, Gladiolus, Lilies, Horticultural, Requisites, &C Bulbs that are enumerated in our Catalogue by mail instead of express, by which a great saving can be effected to those of our patrons who reside at a distance. Articles exceeding four pounds in weight must be sent by express as heretofore. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.