Gardening

Summer in a Garden and Calvin, A Study of Character

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Charles Dudley Warner


This is Warner's contemplative and humorous account of the wondrous and mysterious workings of a garden he tended for 19 weeks. After this i…

The New-York Gardener

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P. Agricola


A series of twelve letters from a proud father to a son who has just bought his own farm. The author instructs "my dear son" not t…

Dwarf Fruit Trees

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Frank Albert Waugh


This book is a handbook for the home orchardist. The propagation, pruning, choice of variety, and management of dwarf fruit trees, specifica…

The Heron Nest

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W. Bert Foster


Pleasant family drama set in early 1900's or late 1890's upstate New York. The Herron clan, led by heroic, inventive, handicapped older bro…

Talks About Flowers

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Mary Decker Wellcome


To all Flower Lovers who may read these pages, we come with kindly greetings. To you we dedicate our Work. Encouraged by the many testimonia…

Home Vegetable Gardening

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Fredrick Frye Rockwell


Either as hobby or a great economic help, home vegetable gardens are valued. With spare time limited, this book is a great aid to those who …

How to Grow the Peanut: and 105 Ways of Preparing It for Human Consumption

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George Washington Carver


George Washington Carver, in his most famous work, explains how to grow peanuts, the benefits of using them, and 105 recipes that incorporat…

Dissertation on Oriental Gardening

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William Chambers


A little essay on the Chinese style of gardening, as opposed to the continental style, which the author finds too formal with too many strai…

Letters from a Prairie Garden

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Edna W. Underwood


The "Letters from a Prairie Garden," are genuine letters and not fiction. They went through the mail. An explanatory word about th…

Making Home Profitable

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Kate Saint Maur


A new life in the country was another chance for Kate Saint Maur and her husband after a business failure left them in dire straits in the c…

The Home Acre

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Edward P. Roe


To tens of thousands of bread-winners in cities a country home is the dream of the future, the crown and reward of their life-toil. Increasi…

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