# Instructions in gardening for ladies

Author: Loudon, Mrs. (Jane), 1807-1858; Corbould, H. (Henry), 1787-1844 [Illustrator]; Williams, S. [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: How To ...

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74201

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Instructions+in+gardening+for+ladies+Loudon&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

_Digging._--Every one knows that the first operation of the gardener, whether a new garden is to be made, or merely an old one re-planted, is to dig the ground; though but comparatively few persons are aware why this is so essentially necessary to be done. When a piece of rough ground is to be taken into cultivation, and a garden made where there was none before, the use of digging is obvious enough; as the ground requires to be levelled, and divided by walks, and thrown up into beds, to give it the shape and appearance of a garden, which could not be done without stirring the soil: but why the beds in an old garden should be always dug or forked over, before they are re-planted, is quite...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/instructions-in-gardening-for-ladies-74201/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/instructions-in-gardening-for-ladies-74201/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/instructions-in-gardening-for-ladies-74201/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/instructions-in-gardening-for-ladies-74201/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/instructions-in-gardening-for-ladies-74201/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/instructions-in-gardening-for-ladies-74201/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/instructions-in-gardening-for-ladies-74201/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/instructions-in-gardening-for-ladies-74201/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/instructions-in-gardening-for-ladies-74201/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/instructions-in-gardening-for-ladies-74201/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/instructions-in-gardening-for-ladies-74201/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/instructions-in-gardening-for-ladies-74201/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/instructions-in-gardening-for-ladies-74201/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/instructions-in-gardening-for-ladies-74201/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/instructions-in-gardening-for-ladies-74201/chapters/2/index.md)