All About House Plants

Their Selection, Culture, and Propagation, and How to Use Them for Decorative Effect

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Montague Free

Szerkesztő

Marjorie J. Dietz

Grafikus

Ray Skibinski

Garden City

'Montague Free: All About House Plants ' összes példány

Kiadó:	Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Kiadás helye:	Garden City
Kiadás éve:	1979
Kötés típusa:	Varrott keménykötés
Oldalszám:	365 oldal
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Nyelv:	Angol
Méret:	24 cm x 16 cm
ISBN:	0-385-13532-7
Megjegyzés:	Fekete-fehér és színes fotókkal, illusztrációkkal.

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HousePlants
Montague Free
Revised by
Marjorie J. Dietz
Now in a newly updated and expanded edition. All About House Plants is the complete book of indoor gardening.
This revision, by noted horticulturist Marjorie J. Dietz, provides both beginners and experienced gardeners with comprehensive instructions on how to care for over 1,000 popular plants for the home.
More than 180 new color and black-and-white photographs and illustrations complement the text, showing how to propagate all varieties of plants adaptable to house culture and to arrange them for decorative eflFect.
All the helpful basic instructions from the original edition are here, along with the latest developments in potting soils and materials, gardening under fluorescent lights and with miniatures, and new aids for house-plant propagation. The making and care of terrariums, bottle gardens, and dish gardens are explained in detail.
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Book Club Edition
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Alphabetical listings of the many different types of house plants available—along with the cultural directions for each—are provided for quick reference.
Whether you grow, or plan to grow, flowering plants, foliage plants, bulbs, ferns, vines and creepers, or cacti and succulents, All About House Plants is an invaluable source book for every aspect of house-plant care.
The late Montague Free was a horticulturist at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden for thirty-one years, and served as a senior editor of Flower Grower magazine. Among the popular books he authored are All About African Violets and Plant Propagation in Pictures, which are now in new revised editions.
Marjorie J. Dietz is a former editor of Plants and Gardens, a quarterly journal of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Her previous books include The Complete Illustrated Book of Garden Magic and The Concise Encyclopedia of Favorite Wild Flowers. She was editor of 10,000 Garden Questions Answered by 20 Experts, Third Edition. Mrs. Dietz lives in East Hampton, Long Island. Vissza