Gardening
Find top gardening books and essential reads for green thumbs at our online bookstore, featuring the best books on gardening for beginners, vegetable gardening, and organic gardening. Discover must-read and best-selling titles, including books about planting and gardening for dummies.
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Starting Early Vegetable and Flowering Plants Under Glass - Including Details of Construction, Heating and Operation of Small Greenhouses, Sash-HousesThis antique volume contains a detailed guide to growing vegetables and flowering plants under glass. It includes details of construction, heating and operation of small greenhouses, sash-houses, hotbeds, cold frames, etc., for the benefit of the amateur and commercial grower. The text will be...
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250 Beautiful Flowers and How to Grow Them"250 Beautiful Flowers" is a comprehensive handbook on gardening that offers the reader information and step-by-step instructions on how to successfully cultivate a vast range of flowers suitable for the garden, as well as some helpful tips on gardening in general. Each flower has...
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Old Fashioned Gardening a History and a Reconstruction"Old-Fashioned Gardening" is a 1913 work by Grace Tabor that looks at the history of gardening and how to reproduce different examples of traditional gardens from Europe and beyond. This volume will appeal to those with an interest in the evolution of the garden...
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The Book of the Mushroom: Growing & HarvestingOriginally published in 1936, this book is a detailed introduction to the cultivation of the mushroom. Full of practical information and instructions on growing and harvesting mushrooms, this book is still of great practical use to today's grower or mushroom enthusiast and even features...
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Cool Orchids (Trade): And How to Grow Them: With a Descriptive List of All the Best Species in CultivationEnglishman Frederick William Burbidge (1847-1905) was a legendary and intrepid collector of tropical orchids, traveling in Borneo, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Australia, and the Fiji Islands in search of specimens. His experience trying to cultivate these tropical plants in more temperate regions led him to...
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Tall Bearded Iris (Fleur-De-Lis): What, When, Where, and How to Plant and Subsequent PlantWalter Stager's 1917 book is a concise guide to the history and care of the tall bearded iris (fleur-de-lis).Author: Walter StagerPublisher: Applewood BooksPublished: 01/06/2008Pages: 48Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 8.96h x 5.32w x 0.14dISBN: 9781429013673
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Quince Culture: An Illustrated Hand-Book for the Propagation and Cultivation of the Quince""This specialized book is a good source of comprehensive information on propagating this highly perfumed fruit, which is often used to make jams, jellies, or pastes to accompany apples and cheeses. Popular in the cuisines of Spain, Germany, Malta, and Lebanon, the quince also...
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Chrysanthemum: Its Culture for Professional Growers and Amateurs: A Practical Treatise on Its Propagation, Cultivation, Training, Rai""Both amateur and professional growers will appreciate this comprehensive source of information on the history, propagation, marketing, and exhibition of chrysanthemums.""Author: Arthur HerringtonPublisher: Applewood BooksPublished: 11/26/2008Pages: 172Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 9.11h x 6.12w x 0.44dISBN: 9781429012867
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Easy Plant PropagationGrowing your own plants from seeds or cuttings is much easier than you think. The plant propagation techniques that you'll learn in this book are simple to do and easy to learn, and they work incredibly well If you already have a green thumb...
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African Violets Back to the Basics: Your Questions AnsweredHave you ever had a question on how to grow African violets but could not find the answer? Now your dilemma is solved and you will be able to quickly find the information for which you are looking. With this book in your hands...
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The Illustrated Book of Edible PlantsHistories, medicinal uses, and recipe ideas for food plants from A to Z. Focusing on the most growable vegetables, herbs, and fruits for the greatest number of people, Jack Staub tells the stories of their origins and apprises the home gardener on ways to...
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Magnolia Plantation and GardensMagnolia Plantation and Gardens, located on the Ashley River near Charleston, South Carolina, is one of the world's last surviving nineteenth-century romantic gardens. It is where the largest and most ancient azalea and camellia collections were developed and where azaleas were first planted out...
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Super Simple Guide to Creating Hawaiian Gardens: For Kama`aina and Malihini"What? Grow endangered native Hawaiian plants in my home garden?" What a concept, but the natives are simple to grow because they belong here For many, the dream of owning a home in Hawai i is becoming a reality. Hawai i has some of...
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Flowers in the World's Most Beautiful GardensFlowers in the World's Most Beautiful Gardens puts the spotlight on the star of the garden--the flower. Tracing the history of flower gardens from the Middle Ages to today, the book discusses the types of flowers commonly planted, the landscape designs, the advances in...
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The Kitchen Garden Grower's Guide: A practical vegetable and herb garden encyclopediaA veritable encyclopedia and easy how-to guide on all that is natural and necessary in the world of gardening and small fruit, vegetable, and herb preparation, in The Kitchen Garden Grower's Guide: A practical vegetable and herb garden encyclopedia, Stephen Albert leaves no stone-collard...
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The Gladiolus: A Practical Treatise on the Culture of the Gladiolus (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)1911 study of the gladiolus: The Gladiolus: A Practical Treatise on the Culture of The Gladiolus, With Notes on its History, Storage, Diseases, etc. "This little book is written with a view to being of service to those inexperienced admirers of the gladiolus who...
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Our Wartime Kitchen Garden"Our Wartime Kitchen Garden" is a 1917 guide to kitchen gardening and cooking on a budget. Written during World War II, it is aims to provide simple instructions and fantastic money-saving tips for surviving during food shortages and rationing. Cover-to-cover with ingenious ideas, this...
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Vintage Journal California PoppiesThe Vintage Journal California Poppies pocket journal features an illustration of a field of poppies. This journal has full color decorative vintage art on the cover, and is the perfect companion for your next trip, writing project, to-do list, or any occasion where a...
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Aquaponics Design Plans, Construction, Operation, and Income: Organic FoodEasy-to-follow step-by-step instructions with photos show you exactly how to construct and successfully operate your own aquaponics system. Included is everything you need to know about Aquaponics: How to build a system, maintain your system, selecting and raising the best fish species, the best...
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100 Plants for BeekeepersFrom around 130 million years ago flowering plants and insects have evolved together in something called co-evolution. This has resulted in a number of different ways of attracting insects to the plants.Entomophilous plant species have frequently evolved mechanisms to make themselves more appealing to...
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