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Books about Vegetable Growing for Sale

[2557] . Home Vegetable Gardening. 1977. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good University of California Division of Agric. Services Leaflet. Revised edition 1977. 4to. 41 pages with many b/w photos. Staple-bound. Very good. $1.00

[462] (UK) Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. Sugar Beet Diseases. London: Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1942. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good London 1942. 53 pages with 54 b/w photos. Wrappers. Very good. $1.22

[968] (UK) Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. Pests and Diseases of the Sugar-Beet. London: Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1935. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good London 1935. 58 pages with 26 b/w photos. Wrappers. Very good. $2.00

[19938] (UK) Ministry of Agriculture and Food. Brussels Sprouts. Ministry of Agriculture, 1976. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good UK 1976. 116 pages. Paperback. Very good. (Weight 1/2 pd or 250 gr) $4.95

[2246] Arny, Brookins and Hodgson. Soybeans for Minnesota. University of Minnesota, 1940. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good University of Minnesota Extension Bulletin. Revised edition 1940. 8vo. 12 pages with 5 b/w photos. Staple-bound. Very good. $1.50

[6560] Beattie, W. R.. The Peanut. Washington, DC: USDA, 1911. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good USDA Farmer’s Bulletin. Wash, DC 1911. 39 pages with 20 b.w photos. Staple-bound. $2.19

[7283] British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture. British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture. BC: 1981. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good Vegetable Production Guide 1981. 4to. 88 pages. Staple-bound. $3.69

[9319] Brittain, A.D. and A.D. Pickett. Injurious Insects of Nova Scotia. Part 1: Fruit Insects; Part 2 Garden and Field Crop Insects. Halifax, Nova Scotia: Department of Agriculture, 1933. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good 2 bulletins. Halifax, NS 1933 and 38. 8vo. 123; 159 pages with b/w illustrations. Wrappers. $7.95

[4042] Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The Home Vegetable Garden. New York: Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1972. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good A Handbook. NY 1972. 8vo. 96 pages with many b/w photos. Staple-bound. $0.97

[11725] Burpee & Co.. Hotbeds and Cold-Frames. Philadelphia: 1900. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Good 3 booklets on early vegetable gardening: Atlee Burpee Co. Hotbeds and Coldframes. 4 pages. circa 1900 Royal Hort Society - Shepherd: Early Garden Crops. 1979. 40 pages Hawthorn, Leslie: Further Tests of Vegetable Varieties for the Winter Garden. 1937. 43 pages. can sell separately $9.95

[5899] Cantelo, William W.. Insects and Diseases of Vegetables in the Home Garden. Washington: USDA, 1980. Revised Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good USDA Bulletin. Revised edition. 1980. 54 pages with 4 color plates and many diagrams. Staple-bound. $0.97

[11890] Chruchill, B.R.. Production of Tablestock Rutabagas in Michigan. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State College, 1945. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good 19 pages with 11 b/w photos. Staple-bound. $9.00

[11601] Clark, C.A. And J.W. Moyer. Compendium of Sweet Potato Diseases. St Paul, MN: APS Press, 1988. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good ISBN: 0890540896. 74 pages with 51 b/w and 74 colour photos. Staple-bound. $155.00

[6186] Cook, I.S.. Field Beans--A Profitable West Virginia Crop. Morgantown: 1915. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good WV Agric. Experiment Station Circular. Morgantown 1915. 11 pages with 5 illustrations. Staple-bound. $2.21

[734] Corbett. Cabbage. Washington, DC: 1911. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. USDA Farmers Bul. DC 1911. 23 pages, illustrated. Staple-bound. $1.96

[8531] Corbett, L. C.. Beans. Washington, DC: USDA, 1907. 1st American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good USDA Farmers' Bulletin. Wash. DC 1907. 8vo. 28 pages with 12 b/w photos. Staple-bound. $2.21

[11873] Cowell, Robert Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center. 1st International Symposium on Tropical Tomato. Taiwan: Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center, 1979. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good 290 pages. Paperback. $175.00

[735] Crandall. Early Cabbage Experiments. 1939. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Rhode Island experiment station 1939. 20 pages. Staple-bound. $0.97

[9276] DeBaun, R.W.. Asparagus Growing in New Jersey. New Brunswick, N.J.: New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, 1918. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good 22 pages with 15 b/w photos. Staple-bound. $1.50

[1101] Dorey, Reuben. Tomato Growing by Prescription. London: Blandford Press, 1960. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good-. London 1960. 8vo. xii, 167 pages with 44 b/w photos and line diagrams. Cloth. Very good. $2.50

[11888] Downs, Dwight; Henry Jacobson; Paul Waggoner. Rotation, Organic Matter, and Vegetables. Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, 1962. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good 16 pages. Staple-bound. $7.95

[6314] Erwin, A. T.. Onion Production in Iowa. Des Moines, IA: Iowa State Horticultural Society, 1918. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good Des Moines, IA 1918. 13 pages with 5 b/w photos. Staple-bound. $2.21

[57a] Farrington, Edward I.. The Vegetable Garden.. Boston: Ralph Hale & Company, 1943. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good Boston 1943. Sm 8vo. (ix), 176 pages with 18 illustrations. Cloth. Good. $3.95

[57b] Farrington, Edward I.. The Vegetable Garden.. Boston: Hale Cushman & Flint, 1939. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good Boston 1939. Sm 8vo. (ix), 176 pages with 18 illustrations. Cloth. Good. Slightly soiled $3.95

[11429] Fitz, James. Sweet Potato Culture. New York: Orange Judd Publishing Company, 1913. 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good Giving full instructions from starting the plants to harvesting and storing the crop with a chapter on the Chinese Yam. New and enlarged edition. (Orange Judd) Sm 8vo. 86 pages. Brown cloth. Hardcover. $64.95

[8900] Halligan, C. P.. Celery Culture in Michigan. East Lansing, MI: Michigan Agricultural College, 1913. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good 24 pages with 15 b/w photos. Staple-bound. $2.21

[1103] Hilton, R.J.. Home Vegetable Growing. Edmonton, Alberta: 1952. Soft Cover. Very Good Bulletin No. 50 reprint, Canada 1952. 8vo. 45 pages with many b/w photos. Staple bound. Univ. of Alberta Agriculture Dept. with sections on control of diseases and insects. Very good. $1.95

[10864] Hitchins, P. E. N. Production of Tomatoes under Glass. London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1951. 1st Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. Very Good 179 pages with a few b/w photos. Green cloth. $6.95

[10411] Hoover, M. M.; Alexander, Paddaock and Dodge. Horticultural Characters and Reaction to Two Diseases of Lycopesicon Accessions in the North Central Region. Wooster, OH: Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, 1955. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good about 50 pages. staple bound. $2.42

[2248] Hutchins, A.E.. Vegetable Gardening.. University of Minnesota, 1943. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good University of MN Extension Bulletin. Revised edition 1943. 8vo. 32 pages with 6 illustrations. Staple-bound. Very good. $1.50

[10374] Jarvis, C.D.. Control of Insects and of Plant Diseases. Storrs, CT: University of Connecticut, 1909. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good 70 pages plus 7 b/w plates. Stale bound. Fungicides, insecticides combinations for all sorts of vegetables and flowers. $2.95

[9284] Jefferson, Lorian P.. The Connecticut Valley Onion Industry. Amherst, MA: Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, 1926. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good 10 pages. Staple-bound. $2.50

[8530] Johnston, S. C.. Vegetable Growing. Toronto: Ontario Department of Agriculture, 1915. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good Toronto 1915. 8vo. 68 pages with b/w photos. Staple-bound. $4.68

[11858] Jones, Henry Albert and Joseph Tooker Rosa. Truck Crop Plants. New York: McGraw Hill, 1928. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good 538 pages with 98 illustrations in text. Brown cloth. $19.95

[11603] Jones, J.B.; John Paul Jones; R.E.; T.A.Zitter. Compendium of Tomato Diseases. St Paul, MN: APS Press, 2006. 4th Printing. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Soft Cover. New ISBN: 0890541205. 73 pages with 65 colour photos. Staple-bound. $44.95

[11879] Knott, James Edward. Vegetable Growing. Philadelphia: Lea & Febinger, 1944. Reprinted Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good- xiii, 511 pages with 110 b/w photographs. From a agricultural research library, with minor markings. Firm and tight. $8.95

[8959] Larsen, R. U.. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Greenhouse Crop Models. Belgium: Acta Horticulturae, 1995. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good ISBN: 9066058986. 146 pages. Soft cover. $8.87

[9290] Lewis, William E.. Preparation of Bunched Beets, Carrots, and Turnips for Market. Washington, DC: USDA, 1929. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good 22 pages with 19 b/w photos. Staple-bound. $2.00

[5666] Lloyd, John W.. Onion Culture. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois, 1914. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good 16 pages. Staple-bound. $1.96

[9969] Lloyd, John W.. The Farmer's Vegetable Garden. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois, 1906. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good 52 pages with 12 ills. Staple-bound. $3.00

[747] Mack. Early Cabbage. 1928. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. PA State Bulletin. 1928. 22 pages, illustrations. Staple-bound. $1.50

[7112] Mattson, Harold. Bounty Tomato in Standard Field Trials in 1940 and 1941. University of North Dakota, 1942. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good ND Extension. 1942. 7 pages. Staple-bound. $1.59

[9970] McClelland, C. K.. The Velvet Bean. Georgia: Georgia Experiment Station, 1919. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good 18 pages with 3 b/w photos. $5.95

[1633] Mead, Cicely. Simple Vegetable Growing. London: Collingridge, 1960. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good 1st edition. London 1960. Sm 8vo. 104 pages with 27 b/w photos and some line-drawings. Cloth. Many valuable hints on how to plan and cultivate a vegetable garden so as to get the best results with a minimum amount of effort. Minor foxing. Else very good. (Weight 1 pound or 500 gr) $2.96

[9282] Musser, A. M. and W.D. Moore. Lettuce Culture. Clemson, SC: USDA, 1926. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good 16 pages with 6 b/w photos. Staple-bound. $1.96

[748] Myers. Experiments with Cabbage. 1916. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. PA Agric. Experiment. Station. 1916. 15 pages. Staple-bound. $0.73

[1303] Pople, David. Growing Vegetables. London: 1968. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. London 1968. 8vo. 168 pp with 31 photos. Cloth w.dj. Includes charts for sowing & planting. GBC. Very good. $1.50

[749] Price, J. C.C. And G. V. Stelzenmuller. Cabbage. Opelika, Alabama: Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, 1916. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good Alabama State Bulletin. 1916. 20 pages with 2 b/w photos. Staple-bound. $1.47

[8961] Raymond, C. B.; A.M. Goodman; A.H. DeGoyler and R.M. Smock. The Storage of Vegetables and Fruits for Home Use. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Extension, 1942. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Good 20 pages. Staple-bound. Stain mark in upper inner corner and throughout the text. $0.73

[8953] Sandsted, R.F.. Commercial Snap Bean Production in New York State. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Extension, 1966. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good- 30 pages with 14 ills. Staple-bound. $2.19

[11602] Schwartz, Howard F and S. Krishna Mohan. Compendium of Onion and Garlic Diseases. St Paul, MN: APS Press, 1995. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good ISBN: 0890541701. 54 pages with 17 b/w and 100 colour photos. Paperback. $62.95

[11860] Shoemaker, James Sheldon. Vegetable Growing. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1949. 3rd Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good 506 pages with 70 illustrations. Tan cloth. From a college Library. $14.95

[9504] Silber, Terry and Mark. Growing Herbs and Vegetables from Seed to Harvest. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1999. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0-394-57346-3. 274 pages with many colour photos. Cloth w.dj. $4.00

[11861] Simon, Andre. A Concise Encyclopedia of Gastronomy. Section III: Vegetables. London: Wine and Food Society, 1942. Reprinted Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good Comprising an alphabetical list of vegetables, herbs, salads, fungi and edible weeds, and a selection of American, English, French, Scottish and Welsh Recipes for their culinary preparation and presentation. 134 pages. Green cloth. $9.95

[7119] Snyder and Larson. Quantitative Inheritance of Seed Size in a Cross between Lycopersicon esculentum and L. Pimpinellifolium. 1955. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good PA College of Ag. 1955. 24 pages. Staple-bound. $1.50

[3659] Spencer, A. P.. Vegetable Crops of Florida. Tallahassee, FL: 1926. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good Univ. of Florida Extension Bul. Tallahassee 1926. 8vo. 52 pages with 19 illustrations. Staple-bound. $1.22

[9530] Stone, George. Cucumbers under Glass. Amherst, MA: Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, 1903. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good 43 pages with 16 diagrams. Staple-bound. $3.00

[10670] Sutton & Sons. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers from Seeds and Roots. London: Hamilton and Adams, 1885. 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good A Year's Work in the Vegetable Garden. Flowers all Year Round, The Rotation and Chemistry of Crops, Formation of Lawns from Seed, and Descriptions of, and Remedies for, Garden Pests. 2nd edition. London 1885. 8vo. 394 pages with a few woodcuts in text. Cloth, spine weak and splitting. (Weight 3 pounds or 1.5kg) $29.95

[11859] Talbert, Thomas Jesse. Growing Fruit and Vegetable Crops. Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1953. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good 350 pages with 72 b/w photos. Green cloth. Very good. $23.95

[3670] Taubenhaus, J. J. And Fred W. Mally. The Culture and Diseases of the Onion. New York: Dutton & Co., 1924. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good+ NY 1924. 8vo. 246 pages with 13 b/w plates. Cloth (slightly rubbed). $6.95

[9288] Tiessen, H. and M. Dickson. Beets. Guelph, Ontario: Ontario Department of Agriculture, 1955. Revised Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good 5 page staple bound bulletin. $1.00

[10965] Udale, James. Gardening for All. Stourbridge and London: Mark & Moody , 1900. 2nd Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good- A Handbook on Growing Vegetables and Fruit, and the Prevention & Destruction of Insect Pests of the Garden, and Selections of Window Plants & Hardy Flowers, for the use of Amateurs, Cottagers and Allotment Holders. 2nd edition circa 1900. 12mo. 154 pages with some woodcuts in text. Orange cloth. Slightly rubbed. $59.95

[9287] Underwood, F. O.. Asparagus Culture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Extension, 1932. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good 23 pages with 6 b/w photos. Staple-bound. $2.21

[3504] USDA. Growing Cauliflower and Broccoli. Washington: 1975. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good Wash, DC 1975. 12 pages with 5 illustrations. Staple-bound. $0.97

[8715] Vincent, C.C.. Commercial Onion Culture in Idaho. Moscow, ID: University of Idaho, 1917. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good 16 pages with 8 b/w photos. Staple-bound. $1.47

[750] Vittum and Hervey. Relation of Marion Market Cabbage Yield and Bursting to Rates of Application and Sources of Fertilizer Nutrients and Insect Control.. Ithaca: 1952. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Cornell Extension Bulletin. Ithaca, NY 1952. 16 pages. Staple-bound. $1.50

[8672] Walker, J.C.. Onion Diseases and their Control. Washington, DC: USDA, 1919. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Good USDA Farmers' Bulletin. 24 pages with 12 b/w photos. Staple-bound. $2.21

[11877] Ware, George Whitaker. Southern Vegetable Crops. New York: American Book Company, 1937. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good 467 pages with 157 b/w photos. Green cloth. X Univ Library. Except stamps very good. $22.95

[11878] Watts, Ralph L. Vegetable Forcing. New York: Orange Judd Publishing Company, 1929. Revised Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good xx, 431 pages with 156 b/w photographs. Blue cloth. Very comprehensive early hand/textbook.The author was Professor of Horticulture at Pennsylvania State College. From a college library. $19.95

[3218] Watts, Ralph L.. Growing Vegetables. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1923. 1st Edition. Sm 8vo. Hard Cover. Very Good / Poor. 1st edition. NY and London 1923. Sm 8vo. 154 pages with a few illustrations. Cloth. A basic early vegetable handbook by the Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station. (Weight 1 lb or 500 gr) $3.20

[3503] Webster, S. Krout. Common Diseases of Celery. New Brunswick, N.J.: 1919. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good NJ Ag. Exper. Station Circ. 1919. 8vo. 12 pages with 6 photos. Staple-bound. (Weight 1 oz or 50 gr) $1.22

[752] Wellington. Culture of Cabbage. 1916. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. NY Agricultural Experiement Station. 1916. 5 pages. Staple-bound. $1.50

[3672] Wickson, Edward J.. The California Vegetables in Garden and Field. San Francisco: Pacific Rural Press, 1917. 4th Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good A Manual of Practice with and without Irrigation for Semi-Tropical Countries. 4th revised edition. San Francisco 1917. 8vo. 319 pages with some b/w photos. Cloth (soiled). $4.67

[753] Wilkinson. Growing Early Cabbage. 1930. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Connecticut Agricultural College Service. 1930. 16 pages with illustrations. Staple-bound. $1.50

[10338] Wilkinson, Albert E.. Summer Care of the Home Vegetable Garden. Ithace, NY: Cornell University, 1915. 1st Edition. 8vo. Soft Cover. Very Good 14 pages with 12 b/w photos. Staple-bound. $3.49

[9966] Wilkinson, Albert E.. Planting the Home Vegetable Garden. Ithaca: Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station, 1917. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good Cornell Reading Course for the Farm. Ithaca 1917. 8vo. 22 pp with 18 b/w photos. Staple-bound. $3.00

[10430] Zaumeyer, W. J. And H. Rex Thomas. Bean Diseases and Their Control. Washington, DC: USDA, 1949. Revised Editino. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good 38 pages with 23 b/w photos. Staple-bound. $3.95