Garden Guide: The Amateur Gardeners' Handbook

Tells you how to raise vegetables, fruits and flowers. How to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city plot. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. With chapters on pruning, propagation, fertilizers, diseases, insect pests, weeds, tools, winter storage, canning, birds, garden furniture and 1001 practical pointers. Profusely illustrated with over 275 teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographs, all made expressly for this standard text book.