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Thorough cultivation instructions for over 500 shrubs, trees, annuals, perennials, herbs, and vegetables, plus instructions for arranging, cutting, forcing, and more. Will help you design a garden that provides a variety of colors, blooms, and forms in a harmonious scheme. Specific instructions for drying 371 different plants. 33 photographs, 142 drawings.
The authors explain the interrelationships of trees, wildflowers, ferns, bacteria, and the soil of woodlands; suggest ways of preparing both large and small wildflower gardens; and describe when, where, and how to gather woods plants. Includes detailed information on over 200 wildflowers and ferns. 195 illustrations.
Information on controlling weed growth accompanies drawings and descriptions of more than one hundred varieties of weeds
Former editor of Horticulture magazine covers over 100 species to fill any gardening situation. Over 125 illustrations.
A selection of 61 of the finest articles from The Herbalist: Tastes in Tea; Spice Caravans; The Significance of Botanical Pesticides; and many more. Personal accounts describe every aspect of history, cultivation and enjoyment of herbs.
This guide covers over 250 major species--by asthetic character, culture requirements, and ecology--and presents essential design information through scale illustrations.
In 1885, Thomas Edison, age thirty-nine and already a world-famous inventor, met the two great loves of his life: Mina Miller and Fort Myers, Florida. Mina soon became his second wife, and Fort Myers—a remote, almost inaccessible, village on Florida's southwest coast—became their winter home. Other tomes tell the global account of Thomas Edison, the American icon named by Life magazine as the "Man of the Millennium." This book offers a look at his life in his tropical retreat, his "jungle," where for forty-six years he and his bride sought refuge from the cold winters and the demanding lifestyle of his New Jersey home, laboratory, and business complex. While in Fort Myers he watched over...