Soilless Culture Simplified (Whittlesey House Garden Series)

xiii, 201 pp. Includes: Preface; Editor's Foreword; History of the Solution-culture Method; The Soil and the Functions of Elements; Nutrient Deficiency Symptoms of Some Horticultural Crops; Fertilization of Crops in Soil and the Effects of Overdoses; How Plants Grow; Commercial Growing of Crops in Soil; Commercial Growing of Plants in Water; Commercial Growing of Crops in Gravel; Soilless Gardening for the Amateur; Index.