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Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is best known for designing parks in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Chicago, Boston, and the grounds of the Capitol in Washington. But before he embarked upon his career as the nation's foremost landscape architect, he was a correspondent for theNew York Times, and it was under its auspices that he journeyed through the slave states in the 1850s. His day-by-day observations--including intimate accounts of the daily lives of masters and slaves, the operation of the plantation system, and the pernicious effects of slavery on all classes of society, black and white--were largely collected in The Cotton Kingdom. Published in 1861, just as the Southern states were storming out of the Union, it has been hailed ever since as singularly fair and authentic, an unparalleled account of America's "peculiar institution."

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

A predecessor of both the nativist humor of Mark Twain and the exotic adventure stories of Washington Irving, Herman Melville, and Richard Dana, Royall Tyler's "The Algerine Captive is an entertaining romp through eighteenth-century society, a satiric look at a variety of American types, from the backwoods schoolmaster to the southern gentleman, and a serious expose of the horrors of the slave trade. "In stylistic purity and the clarity with which Tyler investigates and dramatizes American manners," the critic Jack B. Moore has noted, "The Algerine Captive "stands alone in our earliest fiction." It is also one of the first attempts by an American novelist to depict the Islamic world, and lays bare a culture clash and diplomatic quagmire not unlike the one that obtains between the United States and Muslim nations today.

This 1915 work by Louise Shelton provides the experienced gardener with a comprehensive scheme for continuous bloom, as well as abbreviated plans for those gardeners who would specialize in spring and autumn flower displays.

The aim of this 1913 work by Thomas Smith is to supply the small-scale grower with all the information needed to maintain a productive vegetable business, from preparing the soil to marketing the vegetables.

Thomas Hogg's 1839 work provides both experienced and amateur gardeners with advice on the choice of good flowers and their proper cultivation.

This 1904 volume by R. Brotherston and Martin Smith is a practical guide to the history, cultivation, and care of carnations.

George Jaques's work from 1849 offers a wealth of useful information on the types of fruits that can be grown in the interior sections of New England as well as their cultivation and management.

Designed to aid the time-limited gardener, Rockwell's 1917 work provides seasonable and clear directions for tasks to be accomplished each month in the garden.

In this 1914 work, George Washington Cable, famous for his literary representations of Creole culture in New Orleans, expounds on his own garden and what it means to him.

Originally designed as a textbook for high school students, Samuel Green's 1915 work provides clear, concise, and comprehensive directions for the establishment, maintenance, and harvesting of a home or professional vegetable garden.

From 1892, this work by Joseph Cheal is a practical introduction to the growing of fruit for the amateur gardener.

Ida Bennett's 1909 primer is aimed at the amateur gardener, covering all aspects of the growing of flowers including window boxes, rose beds, houseplants, and winter protection.

This concise 1894 handbook of fruit culture was designed to aid both the beginning farmer and the established farmer who hadn't the time for extensive research in successfully cultivating common fruits.