The Book of the Strawberry: With Sections Also on the Raspberry, Blackberry, Loganberry, and Japanese Wineberry (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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MR edwin beckett's name is so well known to all who take the smallest interest in gardening affairs that he needs little introduction to the readers of this book. For very many years he has been a most prolific and valued contributor to our leading gardening papers, and, since he was seventeen years old, he has been a very successful exhibitor at flower, fruit and vegetable shows of every grade. Like many another gardener of dis tinction, Mr Beckett comes of a race of earth lovers, for both his father and grandfather were gardeners before him. He was born at henley-on-thames, and educated at the grammar school in that town. On leaving school he started practical work in the gardens of Sir Dudley Marjoribanks. Thence he proceeded to Wolseley Grange, Esher, where, although only in his seventeenth year, he held the post of foreman. In 1884, Mr Beckett obtained the appointment of head-gardener to Lord Aldenham, at Aldenham House, Elstree, which post he still occupies. The number of medals and other prizes which have fallen to Mr Beckett at the exhibitions of the Royal Horticultural Society and elsewhere is probably greater than that of which almost any other gardener can boast. He is a member of the Fruit and Vegetable Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society, and is the author of a very useful little book on Vegetables for Exhibition. The Editor desires to express his thanks to those ever courteous florists, Messrs Kelway, of Langport, for assistance in illustrating the Logan Berry, Rzzlyur roréi.

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