Gardening

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Nature

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Frank Albert Waugh - Dwarf Fruit Trees

This book is a handbook for the home orchardist. The propagation, pruning, choice of variety, and management of dwarf fruit trees, specifically apples, pears, peaches, and plums, are outlined. In addition, there is a...

Ian Bradford Ngotngotaha Pugh and 2 more 2 hours 35 minutes

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Nature

456

Mary Decker Wellcome - Talks About Flowers

To all Flower Lovers who may read these pages, we come with kindly greetings. To you we dedicate our Work. Encouraged by the many testimonials of favor with which our Flower Sketches have been received, which have...

Christine Lehman and 11 more 5 hours 25 minutes

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Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation, Harvesting, Curing and Uses

House & Home

516

Maurice Grenville Kains - Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation, Harvesting, Curing and Uses

This book describes use and care, and growing of herbs for cooking, healing and other interesting miscellaneous information related to herbs. — Summary by Crystalarmeta

crystalarmeta and 1 more 3 hours 45 minutes

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514

Eben Eugene Rexford - ABC of Vegetable Gardening

This how-to book includes chapters on getting ready, mapping the garden, planting, seeds, early work, house plants, fruits, hot beds and cold frames, and small gardens. There is even a chapter «expressly for women.» —...

Bill Boerst 2 hours 8 minutes

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Gardening

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P. Agricola - New-York Gardener

A series of twelve letters from a proud father to a son who has just bought his own farm. The author instructs «my dear son» not to overlook the kitchen garden, and writes one letter for each month of the year,...

Pete Darg and 8 more 4 hours 44 minutes

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Family Life

402

W. Bert Foster - Heron Nest

Pleasant family drama set in early 1900's or late 1890's upstate New York. The Herron clan, led by heroic, inventive, handicapped older brother Billy, has fallen on hard times due to one of the depressions that...

Bellona Times 7 hours 42 minutes

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Summer in a Garden and Calvin, A Study of Character

Animals

536

Charles Dudley Warner - Summer in a Garden and Calvin, A Study of Character

This is Warner's contemplative and humorous account of the wondrous and mysterious workings of a garden he tended for 19 weeks. After this is a essay of remembrance for Warner's beloved cat, Calvin. (Summary by Mark...

Mark Penfold 3 hours 17 minutes

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459

Henry Sherman Adams - Making a Rock Garden

A short look at building a rock garden, right from the rocks themselves and how to arrange them, to choosing and placing the plants, touching wall and bog gardens, too. In this little monograph, the author is trying...

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Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur

Gardening

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Gertrude Jekyll - Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur

Wood and Garden reads like a walk through the garden with reknowned garden designer Gertrude Jekyll as she discusses her plant choices and placement, how she integrates nature into her design, and how she maintains...

Ruth Golding and 11 more 7 hours 59 minutes

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Nature

500

Frederick Boyle - About Orchids, a Chat

This is not a manual of instruction for orchid growers; though there are many hints on cultivation, and a few paragraphs on how to hybridize. The author is just an enthusiastic amateur orchid lover. He takes the...

Peter Yearsley 6 hours

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Gardening

440

Robert Buist - Family Kitchen Gardener

The Family Kitchen Gardener contains plain and accurate descriptions (ca 1847) of all the different species and varieties of specifically American culinary vegetables, fruit, and herbs in alphabetical order. It...

Bellona Times and 11 more 7 hours 47 minutes

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Gardening

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Steve Solomon - Organic Gardener's Composting

The art and science of composting is presented in a humorous and readable manner from the basic elements to the in-depth science. An entire chapter is devoted to composting with red worms (vermiculture), and detailed...

Betsie Bush 7 hours 35 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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