Your Garden - Week by Week [antikvár]

YOUR GARDENWEEK BY WEEKA. G. L. Hellyer, a gardening writer and plantsmanof the very first rank, is particularly well qualified toadvise on the practical side of the gardener's work.His life-long experience of gardening and his closecontact with amateur gardeners have given him aspecial awareness of their problems and interests.This book tells the reader just what to do in thegarden during each week of the year. Every operationis described in detail so that the volume as a whole hasbecome a manual of garden craft as well as a calendarof seasonal operations. Food crops are consideredwith as much care as ornamental plants, and themanagement of greenhouses, frames and clochesreceives due attention. Successful planning of thegarden is made easy by unusually comprehensive listsof flowers, vegetables and fruit in season from Januaryto December. The arrangement of the matter as awhole and the comprehensive index make it easy forthe reader to find any information required withoutdelay or fuss. This is of vital importance in a book thatis intended not merely to be read once but to bereferred to time and again, year after year. There aremany line drawings to supplement the text.