General View ... ... ... ... Frontispiece
Facing Page
A Sample of Cauliflowers ... ... ...
The Cantaloupe or "Rock" Melon ... ... xxxi
Carrying Manure to the Hot-beds ... ... 16
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Forewords by Prince Kropotkin . . . v
Extract from Prince Kropotkin's Fields, Factories, and Workshops... xi
Author's Preface ... ... ... ... xiii
"While science devotes its chief attention to industrial pursuits, a limited number of lovers of nature and a legion of workers whose very names will remain unknown to posterity have created of late a quite new agriculture, as superior to modern farming, as modern farming is superior to the old three fields system of our ancestors . . . .