Blue Garden: Recapturing an Iconic Newport Landscape
by Arleyn A Levee
A compelling story about the decline and rebirth of a 100 year old garden. This is a compelling story about the decline and rebirth of a 100 year old garden. Until recently, the Blue Garden, an icon of Gilded Age splendour in Newport, Rhode Island, was known only from hand-tinted slides dating from 1917. Originally designed in collaboration with the garden's original owner by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr, and the Olmsted firm - founded by his father, the great landscape architect responsible for...
112 Superb Varieties for Market Gardeners
by Francis C Stokes and Company
Descriptive Catalogue of Fruit Trees, Vines, Plants and General Nursery Stock (Classic Reprint)
by Clark's Nurseries
Vaughan's Seed Store, 1891 (Classic Reprint)
by Vaughan's Seed Company
Engineering Reliability and Risk in Water Resources (Nato Science Series E:, #124)
Hydraulic, hydrologic and water resources engineers have been concerned for a long time about failure phenomena. One of the major concerns is the definition of a failure event E, of its probability of occurrence PtE), and of the complementary notion of reliability. However, as the stochastic aspects of hydraulics and water resources engineering were developed, words such as "failure," "reliability," and "risk" took on different meanings for different specialists. For example, "risk" is defined i...
How to Select and Care for Shrubs and Hedges (Ortho Book)
by Joseph E Howland
Historical Roots of Cognitive Science (Synthese Library, #208)
by Theo C. Meyering
Cognitive science, in Howard Gardner's words, has a relatively short history but a very long past. While its short history has been the subject of quite a few studies published in recent years, the current book focuses instead on its very long past. It explores the emergence of the conceptual framework that was necessary to make the rise of modem cognitive science possible in the first place. Over the long course of the history of the theory of perception and of cognition, various conceptual bre...
Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 6
Illustrated Catalogue of Rawson's Vegetable and Flower Seeds, 1885 (Classic Reprint)
by W W Rawson and Company
Growing Herbs in Containers: Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A.179
by Maggie Oster and Sal Gilbertie
Growing Native Plants of the Rocky Mountain Area
by Robert Dorn and Jane Dorn
The Rocky Mountain area is noted for challenging growing conditions and a great diversity of plant life. From this plant diversity, the authors have selected 518 species of native plants suitable for use in horticulture and native plant landscaping. The selected species include trees, shrubs, vines, ferns, cacti, grasses, and wildflowers. Culture and propagation information are provided for each species and color photos are provided for most species.
Pruning is essential to keeping trees, shrubs, and other plants healthy and beautiful. Not only does pruning keep plants from getting unwieldy and large, it also allows light and air to reach more branches, encourages fruit and blossom growth, removes diseased branches, and adds structural strength to plants. But many homeowners and gardeners feel overwhelmed by pruning. When is the right time to prune? How much should be removed? What's the difference between pinching and heading back? What too...
Bolgiano's Selected Bulbs, Plants, Seeds, for Fall Planting, 1927 (Classic Reprint)
by F W Bolgiano and Company
Gardening with Shape, Line, and Texture: A Plant Design Sourcebook
by Linden Hawthorne
"Gardening with Shape, Line and Texture" bridges the gap between garden design books and plant reference encyclopedias. Leading landscaper Linden Hawthorne looks at plants from a designer's perspective (where color is often a secondary consideration) and emphasizes the important roles of plant shape. Part One reviews fine art principles and shows how they can be successfully applied to plant compositions by grouping plants into three heights: ground to knee, knee to navel, and navel to crown. Sh...
Wiener Illustrirte Garten-Zeitung, 1895, Vol. 20
by Gunther Ritter Beck Von Mannagetta
