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The Land of FootprintsThe Land of Footprints Books of sporting, travel, and adventure in countries little known to the average reader naturally fall in two classes-neither, with a very few exceptions, of great value. One class is perhaps the logical result of the other. Of the first...
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On HorsemanshipOn Horsemanship This was typed from Dakyns' series, "The Works of Xenophon," a four-volume set. The complete list of Xenophon's works (though there is doubt about some of these) is: Claiming to have attained some proficiency in horsemanship (1) ourselves, as the result of...
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Hunting SketchesHunting Sketches It seems to be odd, at first sight, that there should be any such men as these; but their name and number is legion. If we were to deduct from the hunting-crowd farmers, and others who hunt because hunting is brought to...
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The Compleat AnglerThe Compleat AnglerSir,I have made so ill use of your former favours, as by them to be encouraged to entreat, that they may be enlarged to the patronage and protection of this Book: and I have put on a modest confidence, that I shall...
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The GeorgicsThe Georgics What makes the cornfield smile; beneath what star Maecenas, it is meet to turn the sod Or marry elm with vine; how tend the steer; What pains for cattle-keeping, or what proof Of patient trial serves for thrifty bees;- Such are my...
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The GeorgicsGeorgicon Quid faciat laetas segetes, quo sidere terram vertere, Maecenas, ulmisque adiungere vitis conveniat, quae cura boum, qui cultus habendo sit pecori, apibus quanta experientia parcis, hinc canere incipiam. Vos, o clarissima mundi lumina, labentem caelo quae ducitis annum, Liber et alma Ceres, vestro...
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The Flower GardenThe Flower GardenA south slope is the ideal situation for a garden, since it insures good drainage and the greatest amount of sunlight. The garden should also be open to the east and west, if possible; that it may have the benefit of the...
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The Mary Frances Garden Book or, Adventures Among the Garden PeopleThe Mary Frances Garden Book; or, Adventures Among the Garden PeopleDear Boys and Girls: Mary Frances and Billy have been growing up, and with their growing, they have learned to love the great out-of-doors. No, they havent outgrown fairy folk, at least Mary Frances...
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Our Sentimental GardenOur Sentimental GardenNever was trifling chronicle begun so light-heartedly as this chatty, idly reminiscent book of oursand now it is under the great shadow of war, of death and suffering, that we see it pass into its final shape! The little paradise on the...
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A Garden Diary, September 1899—September 1900A Garden Diary, September 1899—September 1900A WANDERER is man from his birth, and some of us who have done comparatively little wandering in our own persons, have done our full share of those less palpable divagations which may be performed within a very small...
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The Subtropical Garden or, beauty of form in the flower gardenThe Subtropical Garden; or, beauty of form in the flower garden. THIS book is written with a view to assist the newly-awakened taste for something more than mere colour in the flower-garden, by enumerating, describing, indicating the best positions for, and giving the culture...
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The Book of Old-Fashioned FlowersThe Book of Old-Fashioned Flowers - And Other Plants Which Thrive in the Open-Air of EnglandTo that distinguished and generous gardener, Canon Ellacombe, I wish to express my appreciation of his kindness in giving me the freedom of his collection of old garden books,...
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Dutch Bulbs and GardensDutch Bulbs and GardensMiss Nixon wishes me to present her humble duty and thanks to Her Majesty, the Queen of the Netherlands, for graciously honouring her with the permission to make drawings of Her Majestys Summer Palace and Gardens at Het Loo. Miss Nixon...
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A Little Garden Calendar for Boys and GirlsA Little Garden Calendar for Boys and GirlsWhen Dr. S. P. Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, established the Children's Room in that great museum, he took for his motto, "Knowledge begins in wonder," and he put into this room a selection of specimens...
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The Children's Book of GardeningThe Children's Book of GardeningThis book was suggested by the questions of a boy of twelve who lived in Germany and sent for an English book that would teach him the elements of gardening. One of the authors asked the editor of a well-known...
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The Wild GardenThe Wild Garden - Or Our Groves and Gardens Made Beautiful by the Naturalisation of Hardy Exotic Plants; Being One Way Onwards from the Dark AgesWhen I began, some years ago, to plead the cause of the innumerable hardy flowers against the few tender...
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Harper's A-B-C seriesA-B-C of GardeningThe third thing to do is to add to it whatever fertilizer you decide on using. This may be old, well-rotted manure from the cow-yard, if you can get it, for it is the ideal fertilizer for nearly all kinds of plants....
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A Garden with House AttachedA Garden with House Attached "I never had any desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at least of a small house, and a large garden."Abraham Cowley. When, by an...
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Gardening for Little GirlsGardening for Little GirlsChildren take naturally to gardening, and few occupations count so much for their development,mental, moral and physical. Where children's garden clubs and community gardens have been tried, the little folks have shown an aptitude surprising to their elders, and under exactly...
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Manuel pratique de JardinageManuel pratique de Jardinage - contenant la manière de cultiver soi-même un jardin ou d'en diriger la cultureLes progrs que le temps amne sa suite, plus rapidement encore dans la pratique de l'horticulture que dans les autres branches du travail humain, se sont produits...
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