This vintage text contains a detailed treatise on growing vegetables in allotments. It also contains invaluable information on exhibiting vegetables, with complete instructions on the growing of leeks, shallots, onions, marrows, runner beans, tomato, French beans, asparagus, peas, and much more. Full of timeless knowledge, and containing detailed instructions and tips, this is a text that will be of considerable value to the modern grower, and makes for a worthy addition to collections of vegetable-growing literature. The chapters of this book include: 'Allotment Gardening', 'Preparation of the Ground', 'Manuring', 'Cropping', 'Fruits for Allotments', 'Monthly Operations', 'Vegetables as Food', and 'Vegetables for Exhibition'. Many antiquarian books such as this are increasingly rare and costly, and it is with this in mind that we are proudly republishing this work here complete with a new introduction kitchen gardening.