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  • Growing Flowers from Seed in Canada
    Ronald G. Robertson / Ronald GRobertson
    The author describes the flower varieties he has raised from seed and grown in his garden during the past twenty years and encourages readers to do the same. ...
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    13,96 €

  • Cheap and Easytm Houseplants
    Bernice Boughner
    So you want to decorate every nook and cranny in every room of your home with foliage or flowers. Maybe you just want to take care of the dish garden, African violet, or green, leafy thing that used to have flowers. You got a plant for your anniversary, for Mother’s Day or from the funeral and don’t know what to do with it. I can help.Can you think of any other activity you can...
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    17,65 €

  • The Book of the Mushroom
    A. Defries / ADefries
    Originally 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 a short collection of classic recipes. Contents include: introduction - The Nature of The Mu...
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    38,56 €

  • Herbs and Herb Gardening
    Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
    Originally published in 1936, by the celebrated writer Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, this book treats the subject of herbs, ’chiefly with a view to the making of a herb garden and the use of herbs for decorative effect in th flower garden’. This book covers the uses and the cultivation of herbs in exhaustive detail and is still of great practical use today. Many of the earliest book...
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    33,65 €

  • The Herbal Remedies of Culpeper and Simmonite - Nature’s Medicine
    Nicholas Culpeper / W. J. Simmonite
    This invaluable volume combines the knowledge of two herbal doctors, Nicholas Culpeper and W. J. Simmonite, to form an alternative medicine reference book.Nicholas Culpeper was a famous physician in the seventeenth century and W. J. Simmonite was well-known for his innovative herbal remedies in the 1900s. Combining the studies of these two doctors provides a valuable reference ...
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    37,56 €

  • Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them
    Violet Biddle
    'Small Gardens And How To Make The Most Of Them' is a vintage guide to gardening designed for people with restricted space for their plants and flowers. It offers the reader information on what the best plants for smallholdings are, with details on when and where to plant, propagation, hybrids, planting, cutting, and much more. This guide contains a wealth of timeless informati...
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    36,41 €

  • Herbs - How to Grow Them and How to Use Them
    Helen Webster
    Originally published in the 1930s, this book is a detailed guide to the cultivation and use of herbs, for both medicinal and culinary purposes. Full of useful information and instruction, this book is still of great practical use to today’s reader. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expen...
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    32,59 €

  • Sweet Peas - Their History, Development & Culture
    Chas. W.J. Unwin / ChasW.JUnwin
    Originally published in 1926, this book is a detailed look at art and practice of raising and cultivating Sweet Peas. The book contains an exhaustive examination of every aspect of Sweet pea cultur, and is still of great practical use to today’s gardener. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingl...
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    33,66 €

  • 101 Uses for Stinging Nettles
    Piers Warren
    Stinging nettles are, for many of us, nothing more than persistent weeds with a painful sting. But apart from having an important role in the web of life, nettles are an incredibly useful plant to mankind. They have been put to myriad uses by our ancestors, and many of these are still valid today. Already stinging nettle products are growing in popularity in the field of altern...
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    8,38 €

  • From Seed to Salad
    Frank Salerno
    Howto turnyour backyardgarden into a GreenMachine.There is something supremely satisfying aboutpulling out of the backyard garden a big head of crisp lettuce,a half-dozen ripe, red tomatoes, a basketful of Sugar Snap peas, orany one of the dozen or more fresh vegetables growing there. Well, you toocan turn your backyard into a cornucopia of plenty from spring through summerand ...
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    12,23 €

  • Hortus Inclusus
    John Ruskin
    Hortus Inclusus: Messages From The Wood To The Garden, Sent In The Happy Days To The Sister Ladies Of The Thwaite, Coniston is a book written by John Ruskin. The book is a collection of letters that Ruskin wrote to two sisters, who lived in the Thwaite estate in Coniston, during the years of 1874-1884. The letters are written in a poetic style and are filled with Ruskin’s refle...
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    29,22 €

  • Jam Manufacture - Its Theory and Practice
    William C. Jago / William CJago
    This vintage book contains a complete guide to jam manufacture, and includes information on different manufacturing operations, packing, chemical examination, machinery, materials, and much more. This comprehensive guide contains a wealth of interesting and useful information on the subject of jam manufacturing. It will greatly appeal to those with an interest in the developmen...
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    23,49 €

  • Profitable Herb Growing and Collecting
    Ada B. Teetgen / Ada BTeetgen
    Originally published in 1916, this is a wonderfully detailed guide to the growing, cultivation, harvesting and use of every type of herb. Written with the intention of providing instruction to grow enough herbs to resell or use in medicine, this book is packed with information - all of it still practical and useful to today’s grower. Content Include - Herb Collecting Generally ...
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    30,32 €

  • Asparagus
    F. M. Hexamer / FMHexamer
    Originally published in 1901, this book contains a guide to the planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing, and preserving of asparagus, with notes on its history and botany. Contents: Historical Sketch; Botany; Cultural Varieties; Seed Growing; The Raising Of Plants; Selection Of Plants; The Soil and Its Preparation; Planting; Cultivation; Fertilizers and Fertilizing; Harves...
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    31,57 €

  • Staining and Polishing - Including Varnishing & Other Methods of Finishing Wood, with Appendix of Recipes
    J. C. S. Brough / JCSBrough
    This vintage book contains a complete guide to staining and polishing wood, with information on enamelling, varnishing, and other methods of finishing. Complete with simple instructions and a catalogue of useful recipes, this volume is highly recommended for anyone with a practical interest in wood finishing. Contents include: 'Stains for Woods', 'The Various Stains', 'Woods fo...
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    46,06 €

  • Orchard Management
    Action--Peace Corps / Agency for International Development
    CONTENTS:ACKNOWLEDGMENTSINTRODUCTIONUNIT I. ORCHARD SOILSA DefinitionSoil ClassificationSoil FertilitySoil and Water RelationshipsSoil and Plant RelationshipsSoil OrganismsFertilizersUNIT II. BOTANY OF HORTICULTURAL PLANTSClassificationAnatomy of Plant GrowthFunction of Plant Parts (Organs)Reproduction and Fruit Set in PlantsUNIT III. INSECT AND DISEASE CONTROL IN ORCHARDSClass...
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    28,67 €

  • British Native Trees - Their Past and Present Uses
    Piers Warren
    British Native Trees - Their Past and Present UsesIncluding a guide to burning wood in the homeA new book by trained tree surgeon and smallholder Piers Warren This unique book explores the past and present uses of products (wood, bark, fruit, sap etc) of the 35 species of British native trees. With sections:A genus by genus break down of past and present uses of native tree pro...
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    8,44 €

  • The Trouble with Plants
    Ian Shenton
    The Trouble with Plants is unique. Out has gone the traditional recipe for a garden plant guide, plant directory or plant encyclopaedia of compiling a plant’s cultural details into a dry and dusty list, decorating with a stock colour photograph, and repeating for 10,000 plants. Instead here’s a book that pioneers a radical new recipe for each of maybe 200 popular plants from 10...
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    23,25 €

  • Gardening for Food and Fun
    U.S. Department of Agriculture / U.SDEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
    Gardening for Food and Fun is a practical book for gardeners of all types-from the beginner to the proficient, from young people to retired persons. Advanced gardeners will find this book helpful as a refresher and as a reference source.There are four sections in this Yearbook: Introduction to Gardening, Home Garden Vegetables, Fruits and Nuts, and Home Food Preservation. The...
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    28,59 €

  • Super Simple Guide to Creating Hawaiian Gardens
    Barbara Fahs
    '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 the fastest-growing areas of the United States, because the weather is warm year-round, the pace of life is more relaxed than on the mainland, pri...
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    18,38 €

  • The Spare-Time Gardener
    Barbara Hill Freeman
    Offering tips on finding your own gardening style, choosing climate-appropriate plants, creating low-maintenance landscaping and hardscaping, and weeding efficiently and effectively, Freeman understands that there’s no room for scolding, but there is a real need for encouragement and good humor. ...
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    17,68 €

  • The Smallholder’s Encyclopaedia for Self-Sufficiency
    Walter Brett
    Originally published in the 1930s, this comprehensive book provides an excellent guide to living off the land for both pleasure or profit, and will still prove to be an invaluable addition to the bookshelf of modern readers wishing to embark on this way of life. Contents include advice on: Poultry; Vegetable Culture; Fruit Growing; Flower Culture; Holding and Farm Pigs; Cattle;...
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    38,42 €

  • From Garden to Kitchen
    Ambrose Heath / C. H. Middleton / CHMiddleton
    'Wherein the gardener learns how to grow vegetables and the housewife how to cook them'. Originally published in 1937, this is a wonderfully detailed and simple guide to, first, growing and then cooking your own vegetables. A hugely useful tome for the kitchen gardener, written with simple, easy to follow instructions and hints and tips. Many of the earliest books, particularly...
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    39,43 €

  • A Garden of Herbs
    Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
    A Garden of Herbs by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde. This book is primarily intended for those who are going to create an old fashioned herb garden, and who want to know how to use these herbs as our great grandmothers did: but even if you buy your herbs at the store, this practical handbook will show you how to make hundreds of teas, syrups, conserves, pies, candied flowers and leave...
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    41,30 €

  • Greenhouse Culture for Amateurs - A Guide to the Cultivation of Tender and Half-Hardy Plants, Mainly Without Heat
    Edith Grey Grey Wheelwright
    A handbook of greenhouse culture, excluding the fully heated greenhouse, but including frames and greenhouses with some heating apparatus. A book of modern technique and illustrating plants which can now be grown without heat or with moderate heat. A chapter is included on cheap greenhouse construction, with costs. Contents Include: Greenhouses Old and New Hard-Wooded Plants Cl...
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    31,57 €

  • The Chemical Pleasure Garden
    Daniel Stoltzius Von Stoltzenbert
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    17,05 €

  • Cheap and Easy Gardening
    Bernice Boughner / Mary Young
    You say you have a yard that could be improved by a liberal application of Agent Orange? You say you’ve got tumbleweed where there should be lawn, vines that could be hiding a third world nation, trees that block out the sun? You say your house is beautiful but the yard makes it look as though it should be condemned? You say you are mowing, trimming, weeding, and pruning when y...
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    18,68 €

  • Edible Landscaping in the Desert Southwest
    Catherine Crowley
    You can have a totally edible garden in the Desert Southwest (and other similar year-round climates). Edible fruits, vegetables, herbs and flowers can be as decorative in the garden as they are on the dinner table. Change your ornamental garden into a treasure for the eye, a safe environment for family and pets -- and you can eat it too! ...
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    21,41 €

  • Gardens Across America, East of the Mississippi
    John H. Russell / John HRussell / John JRussell / Thomas S. Spencer / Thomas SSpencer
    A comprehensive guide to American public gardens and arboreta, this two volume series provides a state-by-state listing of nearly 2,000 gardens accessible to the public. Each entry provides a general overview of the garden and/or arboretum, hours of operation, admission fees (if any), directions, and a list of special collections and activities. ...
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    16,19 €

  • Pocket Full of Posies
    Sandra Sweeny Silver
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    17,39 €


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