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This is an exhaustive and encyclopedic work of high and lasting reference value to professional gardeners, horticulturists botanists, commercial flower growers and also those who have an interest in pursuing gardening as a leisure time activity. Incorporating the new wealth of knowledge with the old and ornamented through copious diagrams and photographs-it is the soundest book that provides complete and accurate scientific, technical, practical information on field cultivation and propagation of a large variety of fruits, vegetables and flowers. Topics like garden structure, garden maintenance, characteristics and uses of soils and manures, artificial heating, greenhouse plants and botany for gardeners etc have been discussed indepth. Also, there is a treasure of information on storage, packing, preservation and disease and insect, protection of fruits and vegetables. More over, every page of this encylopedia is enriched with a rich glossary of terms and a comprehensive index, comes from the pen of one of the leaders of the world of professional gardeners. Volume 1: Vegetables, Allotments, Medicinal Plants. Volume 2: Orchards, Hardy Fruits. Volume 3: Fruits Under Glass, Storing, Packing & Preserving, Plant Enemies & Friends, Tools. Volume 4: Hardy Trees and Shrubs, Herbaceous and Alpine Plants, Annuals, Beeding. Volume 5: Popular Plants, Greenhouse & Conservatory, Orchids, Ferns Palms etc. Volume 6: Structures, Heating, Soils & Manures, Propagation, Botany Calendar.

This is an exhaustive and encyclopedic work of high and lasting reference value to professional gardeners, horticulturists botanists, commercial flower growers and also those who have an interest in pursuing gardening as a leisure time activity. Incorporating the new wealth of knowledge with the old and ornamented through copious diagrams and photographs-it is the soundest book that provides complete and accurate scientific, technical, practical information on field cultivation and propagation of a large variety of fruits, vegetables and flowers. Topics like garden structure, garden maintenance, characteristics and uses of soils and manures, artificial heating, greenhouse plants and botany for gardeners...  Read More