Title continues: "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. Illustrated with Twenty-Five Engravings." Plain and accurate descriptions of all the different species and varieties of specifically American culinary vegetables, fruit, and herbs in alphabetical order. Includes the best mode of cultivating, propagating, and managing them in the garden or under glass, and a description of the best implements used in maintaining such gardens. Signed by artist Thoreau MacDonald, son of J. E. H. MacDonald.
