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Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1969. Octavo, green cloth, 124 pp. Fine in a Near-Fine dust jacket with light foxing. Voykin provides simple, practical, month-by-month guidance appropriate to the particular region in which the home-owner lives. He advises which type of grass to plant, how and when to fertilize, the advantages and dangers of chemicals, what must be known about seeding and sodding, the problems with insects and insecticides, proper mowing and watering, plus scores of how-to tips discovered in a lifetime of professional lawn work.

Washington, D.C.: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, November 1970. Quarto, paperbound (stiff brown illus. wrappers), 31 pp. Fine.

Chicago: Moody Publishers, (2020). Octavo, softbound (slick green wrappers), 167 pp + ads. Fine (As New). From lower cover: The world is fast-paced... why isn’t God? In a society conditioned for instant gratification, we’re startled -- even frustrated -- when anything tests our patience or requires us to wait. For the Christian, it’s crucial to consider how this rapid tempo of living can distrot spiritual living, steal joy, and threaten faith when we find ourselves waiting on God. On Waiting Well invites you to reimagine waiting as both a crucial part of following God and a beautiful opportunity to experience His faithfulness. Bradley Baurain confronts society’s expectations with biblical truth to help you see your waiting experiences as more than dry seasons to be endured. Discover how waiting is a privilege, a pleasure, and a path toward understanding God’s boundless love for you...

Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., [1960]. Octavo, (hardcover), green cloth, silver letters, vii, 165 pp. Fine, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with light edgewear. Enclosed: LawnCare, North Atlantic Edition, Summer 1969. ‘Whatever your lawn problem -- light or shade, wet or dry, play areas, crabgrass, fertilizing, starting a new lawn or renovating an old one, even ground covers where no lawn is recommended -- you will find the answers to your questions here.’ Contents: Author’s Foreword: New Day for Lawns; You and Your Lawn; Your Lawn’s Underpinning: Grades and Grading for Drainage; Soil -- The Life of Your Lawn; Feeding Your Lawn -- Organic and Inorganic Fertilizers; The Importance of pH; What Kinds of Grasses Are Best?; Starting Your New Lawn; Keep Up the Good Work; Renovation -- Pick Up Your Run-down Lawn; For Shady Sites -- Grasses or Ground Covers; Rough Lawns -- Play Areas, Meadow Lawns, Special Purposes; Pests -- On and Off the Turf; Turf Diseases; How to Control Crab… Read More

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Publications, MCMXCVII. First Edition, Review Copy, with Publisher’s Letter Laid-In. Octavo, softbound (slick, full-color illustrated wrappers), 111 pp. Near-Fine, with former-owner embossed stamp. Lavishly illustrated in full-color. What’s Inside: Choosing the Right Conifers for Your Yard; An Encyclopedia of Spectacular Conifers for Every Region; How to Use Conifers as Architectural Elements and Focal Points in the Garden; The Most Widespresad Conifer Pests and Diseases and How to Control Them; A Complete List of Nrsery Sources for Conifers.

Miami: University of Miami Press, [1951]. Reprint from Volume 14, Nos. 2-3 (June-Sept. 1951), The Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences. Octavo, stiff printed wrappers, stapled, [157] pp. Illus. Very Good; spine darkened, otherwise clean and tight.

Reprinted without Change of Paging, from Journal of the New York Botanical Garden, 32: 260-269. 1931. Octavo, paperbound (stapled printed wrappers), [260-269]. Very Good, with wear that includes several small chips to covers.

Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University Press, 1929. Octavo, stapled wrappers, [36] pp. Good+, with chipped covers. Illus.

Nashville, TN: Cool Springs Press, [2004]. Large square octavo, softbound (full-color illus. wrappers), 192 pp. Fine (As New). Full-color photo illus. “...An accurate, accessible guide to growing grasses in your garden.” Explains the planting, care, and design uses of grasses; Describes over 125 species and cultivars, including both the popular and the unusual; Features full-color photographs and beautiful, detailed illustrations by the author.

Atlanta: Tupper & Love, [1958]. Octavo, cloth, xiv, 464 pp. Illus. First quarter of text has considerable underlining; otherwise, Very Good in a chipped dust jacket.

Portland, Oregan: Timber Press, [1988]. Royal octavo, full-color illus. boards, (hardcover), 124 pp. Near-Fine, with small smudge to ffep, in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. Illus. in b&w, full-color. “This book about orchids and orchid growing begins with a history of the first intorudction to Western horticulture more than 250 years ago and describes the difficult days of learning how to grow them. The main body of the book is concerned with the principles of growing, propagating, and caring for orchids in temperate regions. Discussions of the environmental conditions found where orchids grow in the wild help to give enthusiasts a clearer understading of the cultural needs of the plants under cultivation. Many of the orchids described in this book can be grown with success in a conservatory or on a windowsill, others need rather more specific conditions that can be provided by a plant case or greenhouse. A brief look is also taken at orchids suitable for growing in the garden, including those… Read More

New York: crescent Books, [1992]. Oblong quarto, slick color-illustrated white boards, 124 pp. Color photos throughout. Near-Fine in dust jacket.

Danville, Illinois: The Interstate Printers & Publishers, Inc., [1970]. Tall octavo; stapled, red illus. wrappers; 10 pp. Near-Fine. Charts of words and pictures for the hospital patient recently laryngectomized; includes such phrases as: suctioning, bedpan, adjust bed, shot, turn over, paper & pencil. ‘Often a post-laryngectomized individual, because of the extent of surgery, visual deficit, lack of facility with the written language or a combination of these, has great difficulty in expressing his needs and desires. These charts were designed to assist this type of patient in communicating during his post-operative period of hospitalization.’

London: The Batchworth Press, [1955]. Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, ix, 187 pp. Near-Fine, with light foxing (age darkened spotting) to endpapers, in a like dust jacket. “Botany has aquired the undeserved reputation of being a dry, academic subject. This is most unfortunate because it has deprived many people, who are otherwise interested in the life of the countryside, of knowledge, mostly easily gained, which adds immensely to the wonder and enjoyment of all that grows in field and forest and beside every road and river. In this book the Author has clearly succeeded in showing that plants are as much alive and interesting as are animals, birds and fish.” Contents: Preface; Winter; Spring in the Woods; Summer Grasslands; Autumn: Back to the Woods; Glossary of Terms; Index.

No publication info. Quarto, paperbound, 38 pp. Near-Fine. The abbreviations of authors names in zoology and botany appear to have begun almost with the launching of scientific nomenclature about the middle of the eighteenth century. As the scientific treatment of the fauna and flora has broadened throughout the world and generations of biologists have succeeded generations, the number of abbreviations of the kind has also increased as now to constitute a formidable list, as the present compilation will attest...

Portland, Ore.: Timber Press, [1989]. 1st edition, a review copy with a publisher’s sheet laid-in indicating such. Quarto, green boards, 170 pp. Color photos, illus. Near-Fine in dust jacket.

Harrisburg, PA: J. Horace McFarland Company for American Joint Committee on Horticulture Nomenclature, 1942. Octavo, burgundy cloth, xv, 673 pp. Former-owner stamps; otherwise, Fine.

Westport, Connecticut: AVI Publishing Company, Inc., (1981). Octavo, hardcover (slick, white photo illus. boards), xi + 241 pp. Near-Fine, with neat former-owner stamp. Illustrations throughout. Contents: How Plants Grow; Protecting Plants from the Elements; Trouble-makers in the Garden; Cultural Practices for Garden Health; The Ammunition of Pest Control; Safety in Using Pesticides; Control Methods for General Garden Pests; How to Keep the Lawn Healthy; Care of House- and Greenhouse Plants; Care of Deciduous Trees and Shrubs; Care of Evergreens; Care of Garden Flowers; Care of the Home Vegetable Garden; Care of the Home Fruit Garden; Mammals and Birds Injurious to Gardens; Equipment for Applying Pesticides; Appendix; Index.

New York: A. T. De La Mare Company, Inc., 1935. First Edition. Octavo, tan cloth, 84 pp. Glossy pages, b & w illus. throughout. Fine. Contents: List of Illus.; Preface; Introduction of the Tuberous-Rooted Begonia; Classification; General Culture; Propagation by Seeds, Cuttings or Division; Treatment of Young Seedlings; Hybridizing or Crossing; The Different Classes of Begonia; Cut Flowers for Table Decorations; Questions Often Asked by Amateur Growers - And Their Answers; Index.

American Hemerocallis Society, Inc., 2001. Octavo, paperbound (stiff, slick white full-color illus. wrappers), 152 pp. Fine. Illustrated with numerous full-color and b&w photos. Features: Rapid Vegetative Propogation of Hemerocallis Using Benzyladenine (Tiffany Swan); Make that Daylily Bloom Last Forever and Ever (Cheryl Harris); There Had to be a Better Way: The Garden Sink (Cathy Redd); A Daylilly Odyssey - Part 2; Morton L. Morris: A Closer Look at the Work that Led to the 2000 Bertrand Farr Silver Medal for this Florida Hybridizer; Columns: President’s Message (Kay Day); Question Box (Joel Martin & George Zurles); Society News; Departments.