Reader's Digest Complete Book of the Garden
Type
Book
Authors
Category
Gardening
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Publication Year
1966
Publisher
The Reader's Digest Association, United States
Pages
896
Description
For reading pleasure as well as for information on all aspects of gardening, this book has been designed and planned to put every fact at the gardener's fingertips.
Authoritative
Prepared by the Editors of The Reader's Digest under the guidance of Thomas E Everett, Director of Horticulture and Senior Curator of Education, The New York Botanical Garden. Five noted regional experts and 21 other specialists in flowers, trees, lawns, soil and other fields of plant science have also contributed.
Complete
This single volume of almost 900 pages contains everything a gardener needs to know.
Flowers, indoors and out; lawns and trees; plant identification; alpines and bonsai; specialty gardens; structure of soil; calendars of garden work - these are a few subjects covered.
Some 800 kinds (genera) and countless varieties of plants are described.
More than 7000 items are listed in the index.
Handsomely Illustrated
715 illustrations, over half of them in six colors, drawn by 24 outstanding artists.
Maps and charts show the origins of plants; five special climatic areas; identification and chemical control of pests, plant diseases and weeds.
House and Greenhouse
Plants from chives to orchids, for kitchen windowsill or conservatory.
Plants for the Garden
Annuals: 127 kinds from Abronia to Zinnia.
Perennials: beds and borders.
Bulbs: tender and hardy.
Fruits: planting and pruning.
Vegetables: home-grown for flavor.
Herbs: harvesting and drying.
Garden Design
Improving the site: planning the garden, the terrace, service areas.
Lawns: types, soil, fertilizing.
Shade trees: Ailanthus to Zelkova.
Evergreen trees: desert palm to giant redwood.
Shrubs: flowering, evergreen; kinds for hedges.
Rock gardens and Japanese gardens, gardens for city, seaside and woodland shade.
Bonsai growing.
Regional Gardening
From the humid Northwest to Maine, from the subtropical Florida Keys to the dry Southwest.
How Plants Live and Grow
Plant life, from seed to bloom. Soil, its composition and improvement. The five ways to multiply plants. Fertilizing and composting. Combating pests, disease and weeds.
Special Supplement
Calendar of Garden Work. Glossary, including terms for beginning gardeners.
Taken from the inside flaps.
Authoritative
Prepared by the Editors of The Reader's Digest under the guidance of Thomas E Everett, Director of Horticulture and Senior Curator of Education, The New York Botanical Garden. Five noted regional experts and 21 other specialists in flowers, trees, lawns, soil and other fields of plant science have also contributed.
Complete
This single volume of almost 900 pages contains everything a gardener needs to know.
Flowers, indoors and out; lawns and trees; plant identification; alpines and bonsai; specialty gardens; structure of soil; calendars of garden work - these are a few subjects covered.
Some 800 kinds (genera) and countless varieties of plants are described.
More than 7000 items are listed in the index.
Handsomely Illustrated
715 illustrations, over half of them in six colors, drawn by 24 outstanding artists.
Maps and charts show the origins of plants; five special climatic areas; identification and chemical control of pests, plant diseases and weeds.
House and Greenhouse
Plants from chives to orchids, for kitchen windowsill or conservatory.
Plants for the Garden
Annuals: 127 kinds from Abronia to Zinnia.
Perennials: beds and borders.
Bulbs: tender and hardy.
Fruits: planting and pruning.
Vegetables: home-grown for flavor.
Herbs: harvesting and drying.
Garden Design
Improving the site: planning the garden, the terrace, service areas.
Lawns: types, soil, fertilizing.
Shade trees: Ailanthus to Zelkova.
Evergreen trees: desert palm to giant redwood.
Shrubs: flowering, evergreen; kinds for hedges.
Rock gardens and Japanese gardens, gardens for city, seaside and woodland shade.
Bonsai growing.
Regional Gardening
From the humid Northwest to Maine, from the subtropical Florida Keys to the dry Southwest.
How Plants Live and Grow
Plant life, from seed to bloom. Soil, its composition and improvement. The five ways to multiply plants. Fertilizing and composting. Combating pests, disease and weeds.
Special Supplement
Calendar of Garden Work. Glossary, including terms for beginning gardeners.
Taken from the inside flaps.
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