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F. M. (Fred Maier) Hexamer

A practical early-20th-century gardening writer, this author is best known for a detailed guide to growing asparagus for both home gardeners and market growers. His work blends hands-on advice with history and botany, making it useful as well as surprisingly readable.

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Asparagus, its culture for home use and for market A practical treatise on the planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing, and preserving of asparagus, with notes on its history

Asparagus, its culture for home use and for market A practical treatise on the planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing, and preserving of asparagus, with notes on its history

by F. M. (Fred Maier) Hexamer

About the author

Very little biographical information about this author is readily confirmed online, but available library and public-domain records identify F. M. Hexamer as Fred Maier Hexamer, a writer on agriculture and horticulture. A family note on Ernest Hexamer's Wikipedia page also says that F. M. Hexamer wrote several books on those subjects.

His best-known surviving work is Asparagus: Its Culture for Home Use and for Market, published by Orange Judd Company in New York in 1914. The book is a practical treatise on planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing, and preserving asparagus, and it also includes notes on the plant's history and botany.

That combination of careful instruction and broad background suggests a writer who wanted to serve both serious growers and curious readers. Even where the personal details remain faint, the book itself shows a clear, useful voice shaped by close attention to everyday horticultural work.