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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Ginseng and Other Medicinal Plants
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Arthur Robert Harding
When the price of Ginseng advanced some years ago hundreds engaged in the business who knew little or nothing of farming, plant raising and …
Three Acres and Liberty
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Bolton Hall
It (this book) shows what is needed for a city man or woman to support a family on the proceeds of a little bit of land; it shows how in tru…