GROWING FLOWERS

St. Catherines, Ontario: Hunter Rose, 1956. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xv) 367 pp. Green boards lettered in brown on the front panel and spine. Chipping on the corners of the dustjacket with some loss at the head of the spine; also, some chipping on the upper edge of the rear panel; minor discolouration on the spine; price clipped; previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. Includes a dropped-in bookmark of tiny pressed and laminated flowers. There are far too many gardening essays to list them all here, but some of the highlights are: A Shamrock Ain't a Shamrock; Don't Burn Those Leaves; Why Does One Work in the Garden; Life in the Country; Our Country Without Trees; The Legend of the Chrysanthemum; Illness - Impoverished Soil; How Plants Are Named; Antidote for Communism; History Medicine and Herbs; You've Gotta Live Long to Get Old; Organic versus Inorganic; Do You Want Trees for Shade or Beauty; Apiarists Ape This and Get More Honey; Do You Know the Mistletoe; Amazing Water Lily; Soil Acidity - What Is It; Flowers that Bloom Last Bloom Best; Growing Gloxinias from Seed; Peat Moss - Nature's Garden Magic; Horseradish - You Can't Beat It; How to Prune Hybrid Tea Roses; Your Own Garden of Eden; Sage Will Make You Healthy and Wise; Some Calls 'Em Michaelmas Daisies; Grow Rhododendrons and Azaleas; The Desert Blooms Like a Rose; Why You Can't Buy Tree Ripened Fruit; Have Healthy House Plants; The World's Largest Manure Pile; The Ginkgo or Methuselah Tree; New Rooting Miracle; Are Earthworms Necessary; Irish Potato is Not Irish; Beautiful Flowering Crabs; How Some Seeds Are Carried; Is Sodding Better Than Seeding; Marijuana Reefers and Hemp; Stubborn Gardener; Greenhouse Gossip; Bats Battle Mosquitoes; Scent of Roses in the Air; How to Grow Peonies; What Is Landscaping; The Mystery of the Japanese Maple; Captain Bligh on Horticultural Mission; Horticulture Behind the Iron Curtain; About Planting Roses; Dwarf Fruit Tree Truths; and many more..