Gardening as a healthful and agreeable recreation, as well as a source of income, has made a notable advance in recent years. Thousands follow it as a pleasant pastime, many others as a means of livelihood. Readers find a happy association in plants and books. Poets gain inspiration from flowers. Artists learn that the making of gardens is an aid to painting beautiful pictures. The present volume provides plant growers generally, including amateur gardeners, with a guide to the culture of popular plants and to garden practice. Its scope embraces all the flowers, fruits, vegetables, ferns, palms, trees, and shrubs in general cultivation.<
Title | An Illustrated Encyclopaedia Of Gardening |
Author | Walter Page Wright |
Publisher | E. P. Dutton & Co. |
Year | 1913 |
Copyright | 1911, E. P. Dutton & Co. |
Amazon | An Illustrated Encyclopaedia Of Gardening |