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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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“The Book of Herbs” by Rosalind Northcote is a comprehensive guide to growing, cultivating, and using herbs for medicinal and culinary purposes. The book covers a wide range of herbs, including both popular and lesser-known varieties, and provides detailed information on their history, properties, and uses. The first part of the book focuses on the practical aspects of herb growing and includes advice on soil preparation, propagation, and pest...
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Publisher
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"'Mary's Meadow' first appeared in the numbers of Aunt Judy's Magazine from November 1883 to March 1884. It was the last serial story which Mrs. Ewing wrote, and I believe the subject of it arose from the fact that in 1883, after having spent several years in moving from place to place, she went to live at Villa Ponente, Taunton, where she had a settled home with a garden, and was able to revert to the practical cultivation of flowers, which had been...
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Publisher
Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In the eastern United States, summertime rainfall can support gardens without irrigation but is just irregular enough to be worrisome. West of the Cascades we go into the summer growing season certain we must water regularly.
My own many-times-revised book Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades correctly emphasized that moisture-stressed vegetables suffer greatly. Because I had not yet noticed how plant spacing affects soil moisture loss, in that...
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Publisher
Richard Groombridge and Sons
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
It is to assist the young gardener in this application of principles, to the growth of the Cucumber in the winter season, that these pages are designed; and of those who may differ from the opinions which are here expressed, it is only required that they should receive a calm and deliberate consideration—a consideration unbiassed by prejudice, and unmixed with any of that feverish excitement after novelties, which with gardeners, as well as with...
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Publisher
Harper & Brothers Publishers
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Not everybody has a garden. Some deny themselves the pleasure and the profit of one because they have never had any experience in gardening, and have somehow got the impression that special training is necessary to make a success of the undertaking. Here is where they make a mistake. There is no special 'knack' about it. Any one who owns a bit of land, and has some time that can be given to garden-work, and an inclination to do so, can make a gardener...
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Publisher
McBride, Nast & Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
To-day the garden is in the zenith of its glory. The geraniums and salvias blaze in the autumn sun; the begonias have grown to a small forest of beautiful foliage and bloom; the heliotropes have become almost little trees, and load the air with their delicate fragrance. To-night—who knows?—grim winter may fling the first fleet-winged detachment of his advance across the land, by every roadside and into every garden-close; and to-morrow there will...
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Publisher
T. FISHER UNWIN
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Most of us have dreams of getting back to nature and living the simple life. Home gardening makes this happen and we can create this dream in as simple or elaborate a manner as our hearts desire. By growing healthy organic food you will markedly improve the quality of life for yourself and those around you. Even if you were not born with a green thumb you will find the necessary information here to add beauty and delight to your yard and kitchen.
“If...
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Publisher
The Knickerbocker Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
PROLOGUE
March had come in like a lion, raging, turbulent. Throughout the day the wind had torn spitefully at the yet bare branches of the great elms in the park; it had rushed in insensate fury round the walls of the big grey house; it had driven the rain lashing against the windows. It had sent the few remaining leaves of the old year scudding up the drive; it had littered the lawns with fragments of broken twigs; it had beaten yellow and purple...
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JAMES RIDGWAY AND SONS, PICCADILLY
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The continental gardens and botanical collections having been rarely visited by the British gardener, his Grace the Duke of Bedford, with his usual anxiety for the promotion of useful knowledge, very liberally and kindly proposed in the autumn of 1835 that I should undertake a Horticultural Tour, through several parts of Germany, Belgium, and France, With a view of inspecting the different collections and productions cultivated in some of the most...
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Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
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1. Introduction
It is of great importance to evaluate and characterize the existing genetic diversity of the crop species, mainly for those, such as the case of olive, which still have a well preserved great cultivar patrimony, in spite of the disturbance of the environments where they are cultivated. This issue is of particular importance in areas where a number of varieties show adaptation to the difficult local environmental conditions.
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Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Hydroponic systems for vegetable production are nowadays essential to maximize productions and increase yields. Although the technical issues concerning the production are well explored and discussed, less information is available about the impact of hydroponic methods in the nutritional status of fresh vegetables and in particularly in their levels of bioactive compounds. Therefore, the aim of the current chapter is to provide accurate and updated...
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Publisher
Charles Schribner's Sons
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Books and magazines written by and for American architects usually show in their illustrations fine imitations of lovely French, English, and Italian formalism and works of art in marble or other stone ornamenting the gardens of great mansions in this country.
The object of this book is to present, more particularly, another type of garden, demonstrating the cultured American's love of beauty expressed through plant life rather than in stone; showing...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
According to the author, A MANUAL OF GARDENING is is a combination and revision of the main parts of his two other books, GARDEN-MAKING and PRACTICAL GARDEN-BOOK, "together with much new material and the results of the experience of ten added years." He adds, "In making this book, I have had constantly in mind the home-maker himself or herself rather than the professional gardener. It is of the greatest importance that we attach many persons to the...
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Publisher
Duffield Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Children 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 the same natural, climatic conditions, the children have often obtained astonishingly greater results. Moreover, in the poor districts many a family table, previously unattractive...
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Publisher
L. Upcott Gill
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The object of this small work is to furnish the names and descriptions of really useful and reliable Hardy and Perennial Plants, suitable for all kinds of flower gardens, together with definite cultural hints on each plant. -from Preface.
18) Hawaiian Flowers
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Publisher
Tongg Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This botanical guide to the flowers of Hawaii includes descriptions and color plates describing each plant. It is intended to help the layperson identify common plants of the Hawaiian Islands.
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Publisher
Cawthron Institute
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This work deals with the insects and other animals having a detrimental or beneficial influence upon horticulture in New Zealand. Its purpose is to supply such general information as will enable the common animal inhabitants of the garden to be identified and controlled, to act as a popular guide for the use of practical gardeners and schools, and at the same time serve as a source from which the examination requirements set out in the syllabus of...
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Publisher
White Rose University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Lancelot “Capability” Brown was one of the most influential landscape designers of the eighteenth-century at a time when Britain was changing radically from an agrarian to an industrial and colonial nation, whilst Europe was periodically convulsed by war and revolution. The extent and nature of his influence are, however, fiercely debated. Brown worked at hundreds of important sites across England and his name became synonymous with
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