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Better homes and gardens Garden Book : a year-round guide to practical home gardening.
LIBRA - Blank Collection SB453 .B48 1951
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Better Homes and Gardens.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gardening.
- Floriculture.
- Plants, Ornamental.
- Flower gardening.
- gardening.
- floriculture.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 480 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
- Edition:
- First Edition
- Other Title:
- Garden Book
- Place of Publication:
- Des Moines : Meredith Publishing Company, 1951.
- Contents:
- How to use your space
- Lawns-how to make and keep them
- How to plan for continuous blooms
- Success with roses
- Shrubs for many uses
- Evergreens for long-time pleasure
- Vines-what they can do for you
- Garden pools-how to build and plant
- Shade-its possibilities and problems
- Walls and banks-how to plant
- Maintenance-laborsavers-tools-garden storage
- Construction in the home garden
- Garden soils-how to manage them
- Vegetable growing that pays
- Fruit for the home place
- Control of pests and disease
- Window gardening and success with house plants
- Seed starting-propagation-flowers for cutting
- Calendar of garden reminders for the 12 months.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy has four leaves of handwritten notes for shrubs, trees garden plans.
- Kislak copy has articles from issues of Better Homes & Gardens magazine inserted.
- OCLC:
- 2017846
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