This book is the second volume of the definitive handbook for the gardener, comprising a wealth of green-fingered tips and techniques that cover absolutely everything necessary for creating and maintaining a fruitful garden. Although an antiquarian text, this handbook contains timeless information about the subject and continues to be a must-read for the keen amateur horticulturist today, complete with detailed drawings and diagrams to help you every step of the way on your journey to successful gardening. Sir William Watson (1858 1935) was an English poet, famous for the controversial political content of his work. This book was originally published in 1910 and is proudly republished now with a new introductory biography of the author."

In his youth, Peter Finch wove his way through a series of exploits and adventures. Travels took him to Canada, where a fateful encounter in the Rocky Mountains opened up new horizons. In midlife he and his wife Gundi made the shift to country living, ushering in a new phase in their life, as they set down roots in the hills and settled into a deliberately simplified lifestyle.

Peter relates how he and Gundi immersed themselves in ways guided by nature. As she created and sold glass sculptures, he sunk his hands and tools into pure glacial-till soils, sowing, planting, and growing culinary and medicinal herbs, heirloom vegetables and salad greens to take to farmers markets and restaurants in and around Toronto. Invigorated by the pleasures and health benefits of growing, selling, and eating fresh organic food, Peter reveals how he became a passionate advocate of traditional, small-scale, chemical-free farming.

"High Up in the Rolling Hills" shares the personal journey of an independent couple as they explore the vital role of nature, creativity, and healthy food in life.

This book is the fifth volume of the definitive handbook for the gardener, comprising a wealth of green-fingered tips and techniques that cover absolutely everything necessary for creating and maintaining a fruitful garden. Although an antiquarian text, this handbook contains timeless information about the subject and continues to be a must-read for the keen amateur horticulturalist today, complete with detailed drawings and diagrams to help you every step of the way on your journey to successful gardening. Sir William Watson (1858 1935) was an English poet, famous for the controversial political content of his work. This book was originally published in 1910 and is proudly republished now with a new introductory biography of the author."

PREFACE: The plan of this work differs from that of the ordinary Botany. The method pursued is to introduce the pupil at once to the study of the plant itself, by means of elaborate illustrations, and living specimens. The parts and functions, together with the generic and specific characters of each plant, are pointed out and described. The thing being seen is then named. No new term is introduced until a necessity arises for its use....Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

A handy early guide to the formation and management of the kitchen garden and the cultivation of useful fruit and vegetables. This fascinating work is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of all gardeners and contains much information that is still useful and practical today. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original artwork and text.

This book was prepared with the design to having been to afford the novice of the game Bridge with sufficient theoretical knowledge of the principles and strategy of the game to enable the reader to commence the practise in a sound and intelligent manner. It includes full instructions, numerous examples, analyses, illustrative deals, and a complete code of laws, with notes indicating the differing practices at the most prominent clubs. It was originally published in 1902 but will still prove to be of interest to any player or learner of the game. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original artwork and text.

This book is the third volume of the definitive handbook for the gardener, comprising a wealth of green-fingered tips and techniques that cover absolutely everything necessary for creating and maintaining a fruitful garden. Although an antiquarian text, this handbook contains timeless information about the subject and continues to be a must-read for the keen amateur horticulturist today, complete with detailed drawings and diagrams to help you every step of the way on your journey to successful gardening. Sir William Watson (1858 1935) was an English poet, famous for the controversial political content of his work. This book was originally published in 1910 and is proudly republished now with a new introductory biography of the author."

This book is the first volume of the definitive handbook for the gardener, comprising a wealth of green-fingered tips and techniques that cover absolutely everything necessary for creating and maintaining a fruitful garden. Although an antiquarian text, this handbook contains timeless information about the subject and continues to be a must-read for the keen amateur horticulturist today, complete with detailed drawings and diagrams to help you every step of the way on your journey to successful gardening. Sir William Watson (1858 1935) was an English poet, famous for the controversial political content of his work. Originally published in 1910, this book has been elected for republication because of its historic and educational value, proudly republished here with a new introductory biography of the author."

The aim of this book is to describe some aspects of the chemistry and chemical ecology which are found in the garden. In the garden there are numerous interactions between plants, the soil and with other organisms in which chemistry plays a central mediating role. The discussion concerns several of the chemically and ecologically interesting compounds that are produced by common ornamental garden plants and vegetables and by the predators that attack them. Many chemists are amateur gardeners and this book is directed at them as well as those with a general interest in the scientific processes involved in the garden.

The Guide to Canadian Vegetable Gardening includes how-to and when to information for successful vegetable gardening thoughout the gardening regions in Canada. Filled with the need to know information on planting, growing and harvesting more than 50 vegetables and herbs. Includes full-color images and helpful maps and charts.

DO YOU DOUBT THE DAFFODIL is a bouquet of delightful and thoughtful bits of spiritual wisdom through the gardener's eye accompanied by engaging drawings and photographs. Belonging on the bedside table so you can go to sleep with it at night and awaken with it in the morning, this book is not a page-turner it's a book you want to get cozy with and revisit over a period of time.Each page is a spiritual journey of wisdom, play, challenges, quirky humor, and comfort that weaves a personal and uniquely different path for the reader. Written in garden metaphor, one walks through a garden and the garden of one's heart by reawakening to spring via newly sprouted seeds, grounding while smelling the tangy fragrance of pine, and experiencing the transformation in consciousness when an enclosure is held sacred. Bobbi Junod allows the reader to glimpse an inner landscape by witnessing her journey.If you are looking for a prize rose along your garden path, DO YOU DOUBT THE DAFFODIL provides the beauty and mystery that nature and spirit creates.

In the first essay in "Garden Musings," this gardening writer states, "The evidence keeps racking up that I, the Hoosier-born offspring of several generations of farmers, chose through ignorance to garden in a delightful area combining the world's worst soil and an exasperating climate, all augmented by various man-made and natural catastrophes such as tornadoes, droughts, prairie fires, hail, drenching rains, ice-storms, late freezes, boiling summers, and seventy mile per hour winds. " Gardening, with all the pressures of struggle between the environment, wild animals, and the gardener, and particularly in the harsh Kansas weather, is not for the faint-hearted as demonstrated by the many essays in the book including Sweet (Corn) Pain, Weather-Weary, Midden Misery, and Soil Sorrows.

While the essays are full of useful personal observations about gardening style, plant information, and garden practices, the author also turns his wry eye on tumbling a number of gardening tenets and institutions as he turns his attentions on composting, lawn maintenance, and landscape designers who work primarily in junipers, Japanese barberry and Stella de Oro daylilies. The timing and content of programming of the Home and Garden Television Network and the lack of availability of G-rated gardening statues are other topics that don't escape this garden curmudgeon. Gardeners searching for practical advice or simply for winter-reading pleasure will all find fulfillment within these pages.