African Violets, Gloxinias, and Their Relatives
Author : Harold Emery Moore
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Page : 364 pages
File Size : 22,55 MB
Release : 1957
Category : African violets
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Author : Harold Emery Moore
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Page : 364 pages
File Size : 22,55 MB
Release : 1957
Category : African violets
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Page : 80 pages
File Size : 34,70 MB
Release : 1984
Category : African violets
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Author : Frances N. Batcheller
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Page : 81 pages
File Size : 47,31 MB
Release : 1967
Category : African violets
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Author : Melvin J. Robey
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 45,31 MB
Release : 2010-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1449051006
African Violets: Gifts from Nature-The Series Book One In 1892 while on an evening stroll with his fiance in East Africa, Baron Walter von Saint Paul discovered an unusual plant with delicate purple flowers growing along a stream on his plantation. Legend has it that he picked a bouquet and presented it to his fiance, staring the worlds love affair with the African violet. Today, this plant is indeed the most popular indoor flowering plant grown by gardeners and plant enthusiasts around the world. Whether your goal is to enjoy beautifully flowering African violets in your home, to become an expert grower of these lovely plants, or to develop a deeper understanding of how the plants function, a series of three books are being written to meet your needs. The Series provides you with an authoritative guide, taking you through all the steps necessary for growing elegant African violets and at the same time explaining to you the secrets of why the plants respond to the various growing practices used daily in their care. When writing about African violets, Melvin J. Robeys expertise, pragmatism, humor and love of the subject are clearly evident. The reader will find down-to-earth, up-to-date information in this first of three books in The Series of African Violets: Gifts from Nature. Your African violets wont flower? In this book eight common problems are explored, exposing the secrets to having plants whose crowning glory of blossoms tells everyone you are the superhero of the African violet world. You will also enjoy 44 dazzling color photographs and illustrations, along with several black and white illustrations. A unique chapter on the history of the African violet plant allows the reader to explore the fascinating story of how this spectacular houseplant has captured the imagination of plant-olgists worldwide. For more information on African Violets: Gifts from Nature--The Series visit www.africanvioletbooks.com.
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Page : 494 pages
File Size : 49,54 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Gesneriaceae
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,3 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Agriculture
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Author : National Agricultural Library (U.S.)
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Page : 44 pages
File Size : 36,12 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Agriculture
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Page : 538 pages
File Size : 50,92 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Gesneriaceae
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Author : Katharine S. White
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 29,69 MB
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1590178513
In 1925 Harold Ross hired Katharine Sergeant Angell as a manuscript reader for The New Yorker. Within months she became the magazine’s first fiction editor, discovering and championing the work of Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, James Thurber, Marianne Moore, and her husband-to-be, E. B. White, among others. After years of cultivating fiction, White set her sights on a new genre: garden writing. On March 1, 1958, The New Yorker ran a column entitled “Onward and Upward in the Garden,” a critical review of garden catalogs, in which White extolled the writings of “seedmen and nurserymen,” those unsung authors who produced her “favorite reading matter.” Thirteen more columns followed, exploring the history and literature of gardens, flower arranging, herbalists, and developments in gardening. Two years after her death in 1977, E. B. White collected and published the series, with a fond introduction. The result is this sharp-eyed appreciation of the green world of growing things, of the aesthetic pleasures of gardens and garden writing, and of the dreams that gardens inspire.
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Page : 720 pages
File Size : 10,12 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Gesneriaceae
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