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Philadelphia, PA: Farm Journal Books, 1980 Farm Journal Books, Philadelphia, PA. 1980. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: VG+; slight shelfwear to bottom tips, head and tail; two areas of bumped textblock. DJ: VG+; slight chipping to cover at head; rubbing and light surface scratches to cover. Green cloth boards and spine with bright silver lettering on spine and front board. 272 pp. 8ov. The author left his comfortable life in Philadelphia to travel the country and find out what it is like to be a farmer in this country. The most realistic book about farm life in America and how it has evolved into a much more complex agricultural community. Technology and computer have invaded, but traditional values still abound. A clean and very presentable copy in Brodart mylar.

New York Botanical Garden, 1944. Periodical. This vigorous wartime journal of horticulture and tropical exploration includes Seaver, Bermuda, Its Gardens & Scenery; Porterfield, Taro, Ancient Food Plant of Tropical Regions; Carsner, Sugar Beet in Europe & America; Hodge, Hunting Cinchona in the Peruvian Andes; Gleason, Percy Wilson, An Appreciation; Robbins, Bread; von Hagen, Great Mother Forest. A Record of Richard Spruce's Days along the Amazon; Wynne, Life Story of the Mosses; Birch, Raising Azalea Schlippenbachii from Seed; 1943 Annual Report; Beard, A Forest Lover in the Caribbee Islands 1, On Robinson Crudoe's Isle & 2, On the Isle of Spice & 3, On St. Vincent's Soufrière; Thom, Molds in the Cheese Industry; Leggett, Woad, Once the 'Universal' Dye of Western Europe & Vegetable Dyes of Ancient Usage I, Saffron for Yellow; Fulling, Plant Life & the Law of Man V, Right to Fruit on Overhanging Branches; Dawson, Botanizing in an… Read More

New York Botanical Garden, 1946, 1947, 1948. Periodical. "A Quarterly Review Published by The New York Botanical Garden." Includes Maguire, New Worlds To Conquer [botanical exploration in tropical South America]; Botany in War; photos from the Flower Show; Spruyt, DDT in the Home Garden; running series Did You Know that--?; Bromley, Care of the Smaller Evergreens; Keessen, Landscaping Your Tulip Garden; Simpson, Garden Beds; Hill, Flowering Crab-Apples; Dodge, Boxwood Troubles; Everett, Time-Table for Advance Seed Sowing & Devil's Tongue & Beware the Anacardiaceae! [poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac, cashew plant, mango, rhus vernicifera, gluta renghas] & English Wallflowers & Hot-Weather Transplanting; Degener, Plant Explorer in Fiji; Jungle Cures; King, Small Fruits for the Home Garden; Essen, Practical Pointers on Evergreen Planting; Brass, The Vernay Nyasaland Expedition; Beckett, Why Not Grow Your Own Celery?; De Bevoise, Rock Gardens in New England; Lamson,… Read More