The Woman's Day Book of Annuals and Perennials


Book Description

This book is a must for successful gardening with annuals and perennials, with important information for identifying, growing and maintaining 200 of the best loved of these flowers in the United States. Carefully organized for easy reference and practical use, the book presents each entry in full color, giving specific information for height, color, location and soil requirements, together with helpful hints for propagating, displaying, transplanting and more. Every flower -- from the Sweet Alyssum to the Giant Zinnia in the annuals group, from the fragrant Daphne to the exotic Monkshood in the perennials group -- is treated with the same explicit detail and informative illustrations that have made the earlier Woman's Day plant books the most popular and useful gudies for the novice and expert gardener alike. Whether used as a guide for growing your favorite blooms in a small patch of earth, for creating a beautiful garden to enhance more extensive grounds, or for making a "cutting garden" for fresh or dried flowers for your home, this book will become an essential part of any gardener's library.




1,001 Old-Time Household Hints


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A compendium of tips, recipes, and recommendations for everyday living, collected by the editors of the popular New England periodical, covers a wide range of topics, from baking bread using traditional methods and simplifying household chores to celebrating the holidays and caring for a garden. 15,000 first printing.




The Woman's Day Book of Wildflowers


Book Description

A guide to the identification and cultivation of 200 wildflowers, with a color picture of each and information on planting, preserving, and pressing wildflowers.




Woman's Day Easy House-Hold Tips


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The practical, yet ingenious advice jam-packed in this guidebook includes fast and handy tips for household problems that are faced daily, from how to keep fingernails clean while gardening to the perfect use for old socks.




Reading Women


Book Description

An indispensable guide for anyone who runs or participates in a book group, this title provides the structure and fun facts needed to examine the genre of women's fiction. Women's fiction covers numerous topics of importance in the lives of women—friendship, love, personal growth, and familial relationships. For this reason, the genre is a hotbed of engaging subjects for book group discussions. Reading Women: A Book Club Guide for Women's Fiction brings together information on over 100 women's fiction titles, providing everything a book group needs to encourage focused, stimulating meetings. Reading Women marshals information that has been, up to this point, either nonexistent or scattered in book club guides. Readers will learn the difference between women's fiction, romance, and chick lit, as well as why these genres provide a rich trove of discussion topics for book groups. Specific entries cover titles from all three genres, offering an author biography, a book summary, bibliographic material, discussion questions, and read-alike information for each book. An additional 50 titles suitable for book group discussions are listed with brief summaries.




The Woman's Book


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Household Hints


Book Description

It’s amazing what you can do with these four simple ingredients from your kitchen . . . Looking for simple, affordable, and effective home products you can count on? Trying to avoid all those harmful chemicals and find safe, natural solutions instead? Household Hints has hundreds of tips, techniques, and recipes—and many are made from the wholesome ingredients already in your kitchen: vinegar, lemon, salt, and baking soda. Inside this book you’ll learn about: cleaning solutions and scrubs * pet care * natural pest control * tips for gardens, yards, and garages * DIY beauty * food and cooking hacks These recipes and tips for the home are organized by use for easy reference with this colorfully illustrated guide. With these ingredients you can do almost anything—the possibilities are limitless!







National Union Catalog


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Includes entries for maps and atlases.