Free eBooks - Gardening
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Are you at war with aphids and other garden pests? Find out how to attract good bugs to fight the battle with these bad boys. GARDEN WARS is a compact guide to attracting beneficial insects to your garden. Chapters include 'What the heck is a good bug?'; 'Creating a beneficial insectary'; 'The private lives of 'good bugs'; highlights of author's garden journal. more...
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You could be doing better in the garden, and you know it. You're working harder than you need to and still not getting the results you really want - I guarantee it. Basically, you need a partner - one with brains and brawn - and some new ideas. Learning Lessons identifies your perfect gardening partner and helps you make the hookup. And your old ideas will definitely be challenged! more...
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INTRODUCTION
The successful garden has a permanent basis. There must be some flowers that appear year after year, whose position is fixed and whose appearance can be counted on. The group classed as perennials occupies this position and about flowers of this class is arranged all the various array of annuals and bulbs. These last act as reinforcements in rounding out the garden scheme.
Perennials are plants ... more...
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CHAPTER I.
HOW TO MAKE A LAWN.
A smooth lawn is a great attraction of itself, even if there is not a tree or shrub upon it. When it is once made, a lawn is easily kept in order, yet we seldom see a good one. There are three things to be taken into consideration in securing a fine lawn. First, location; Second, quality of the soil; Third, the kinds of seed to be sown.
LOCATION.
This is the most important ... more...
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
Formerly it was the custom for gardeners to invest their labors and achievements with a mystery and secrecy which might well have discouraged any amateur from trespassing upon such difficult ground. "Trade secrets" in either flower or vegetable growing were acquired by the apprentice only through practice and observation, and in turn jealously guarded by him until passed on to some ... more...
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THE PREFACEto all well minded.
Art hath her first originall out of experience, which therefore is called the Schoole-mistresse of fooles, because she teacheth infallibly, and plainely, as drawing her knowledge out of the course of Nature, (which neuer failes in the generall) by the senses, feelingly apprehending, and comparing (with the helpe of the minde) the workes of nature; and as in all other things ... more...
