Gardening

This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to growing apple trees, and includes information on soil, tree forms, rootstocks, pests, varieties, and much more.

This book is thoroughly recommended for the professional and amateur winegrower.

"e;A Fertility Program for Growing Vegetables"e; is a classic guide to growing vegetables focusing on fertilisers.

This vintage book contains a complete guide to growing cranberries and blueberries, with information on pest control, cultivation methods, fertilisation, and much more.

This vintage book contains a general and accessible guide to budding, grafting and other aspects of fruit tree propagation.

This antiquarian book contains a comprehensive guide to pruning apple trees, with information on tools, when to prune, how to prune, common problems and avoiding them, and much more.

This volume contains a collection of classic articles on the subject of speeding up the growth and maturity of grapes.

Originally published in 1936, this book is a detailed introduction to the cultivation of the mushroom.

Originally published in 1901, this book contains a guide to the planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing, and preserving of asparagus, with notes on its history and botany.

This antiquarian volume comprises a comprehensive guide to growing figs under glass, with information on cropping, common problems, pests and diseases, pruning, watering, and everything else needed for successful growing.

This antiquarian volume comprises a detailed and concise guide to growing the stone fruits, with information on growing cherries, peaches, and plums.

This book contains a vintage article on the use of manure in the growing of grapes.

This book contains a collection of classic articles on the subject of hybridising and crossing the grapevine, complete with historical information, simple directions, and helpful tips.

This vintage book contains a comprehensive article on the plum, with information on cultivation, soils, tree forms, planting, pruning, diseases, pests, and varieties.

This volume contains a comprehensive guide to ferns, palms, and cycads, and includes information on variations, descriptions, popularity, and other information of note.

Written for commercial mushroom growers, this vintage, specialised text provides a comprehensive, practical guide to mushroom cultivation, though still provides interesting and relevant information for the mushroom cultivation enthusiast.

This antiquarian book contains an accessible and concise guide to pruning, with information on the correct methods for pruning a variety of fruit trees, the tools and equipment needed, common problems and pitfalls, and more.

This vintage text contains a detailed article on growing fruit, with a particular focus on growing damsons and plums.

This vintage text contains a comprehensive yet concise guide to growing citrus fruits, complete with simple instructions and information on growing lemons, oranges, grapefruits, and other citrus fruits.

This early work on the fertilisers and manure concentrates on the chemistry behind them, examining their different types and how they are made.

An excellent book on a topic rarely explained, Practical Groundsmanship will be the greatest possible assistance to all who have a responsibility of turf upkeep, from the park-keeper to the groundsman of the smallest local sports club.

This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to growing a wide range of fruit and vegetables, with information on what to plant, how to prune and manure, common problems and pitfalls, and much more.

This vintage book contains a detailed guide to growing gooseberries, and includes information on propagation, planting, pruning, pests, varieties, and much more.

This vintage book contains a collection of articles on the subject of growing apricot trees.

This vintage book contains a detailed article on establishing an orchard, and includes notes on ploughing, planning, and planting.

This vintage text contains a detailed and easy-to-digest guide to growing grapes, with a special focus on growing in Minnesota.

This antiquarian book contains a concise and detailed guide to growing grapes and small fruits for profit, with information on common problems, fertilisation, planting methods, and much more.

This antiquarian book contains a concise yet comprehensive guide to growing tomatoes, and includes information on such topics as soil, harvesting, tools and equipment, pests, diseases, fertilisation, and more.

This antiquarian volume contains an accessible and concise guide to pruning, with information on the correct methods for pruning rose trees, fruit trees, ornamental trees and shrubs, and many other plants commonly found in the garden.

This little book is addressed to those gardeners who love chrysanthemums but who perhaps have not had sufficient experience in growing them to produce them at their best.

Volume IV in a series about the flower garden, this work deals with all aspects of growing dahlias.

This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to growing apple trees, and includes information on soil, tree forms, rootstocks, pests, varieties, and much more.

This classic text provides a comprehensive and practical guide to growing mushrooms, and is suitable for the home and amateur growers.

'Roger Phillips has written the best mushroom book I know.

An authoritative and beautifully illustrated book on wild food and foraging by one of the leading experts.

This vintage book contains a classic article on replacing and renewing spurs and arms on grapevines.

"e;Vine Pruning"e; is a comprehensive guide to maintaining grape vines, looking at why, when, and how it is done.

This vintage book contains an elementary guide to growing fruit, with information on propagation, planting, culture, fertilization, pruning, spraying, and much more.

Originally published in 1898, this brilliant little manual tells you everything you need to know about the mushroom cultivation.

This enchanting glossary of flowers, and their hidden meanings and symbols, is accompanied by Kate Greenaway's wonderfully rich illustrations.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

Originally published in 1881, this is a'Practical treatise on the cultivation of the most profitable outdoor crop known'.

This vintage book contains a handbook of garden rockery, being a guide to how to make, plant, and manage it.

This antiquarian book contains a comprehensive guide to growing apples for commercial purposes, with information on the industry, setting up an orchard, equipment and tools needed, and much more.

A comprehensive guide to the french art of market gardening - a treatise on intensive, year round cultivation for the domestic gardener.

The Zen gardens of Japan are places in which to meditate.

Those of us living in towns and cities might think that the pleasures of growing our own food, watching the seasons pass with the changing produce and getting our hands stuck into the soil are beyond our reach.

One January morning in 1734, cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London's Custom House to collect cargo just arrived from John Bartram in the American colonies.

In 2003 a MORI poll for the Royal Horticultural Society revealed that an extraordinary number of us are interested in attracting wildlife into our gardens.

How did plants get to be the way they are?