I have a number of old favourites which I browse through now and again,
here's a list of a few of mine

Creating your Garden, Ian G Walls. my first gardening book, purchased in
1969.

The readers digest Complete Library of the Garden, 1st Edition.

The four books by Michael Howarth-Booth.

Some of Beverly Nichols' books, Garden Open Tomorrow is favourite.

Terrace and Courtyard Gardens by A D B Wood.

These are a few of the ones I keep returning to for inspiration and
ideas but I found it difficult to choose from the many.

Does anybody else have a list of old favourites which you would like to
share your knowledge of.

Don

"Donwill" wrote in message
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Does anybody else have a list of old favourites which you would like to
share your knowledge of.

Don

I use these three more than any of my other gardening/horticulture books:

1. "Practical Gardening and Food Production in Pictures" by Richard Sudell,
Odhams Press, London, 384 pp. No date, but probably early 40's since there
is a chapter on how to adapt your garden in wartime. Covers everything from
garden construction through propagation, pests, flowers, the kitchen garden,
growing fruit, allotments, keeping rabbits and poultry, and more. Full of
interesting B&W photographs and diagrams of how-to. A very practical and
down-to-earth book.

2. "The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening: An Encyclopedia of
Horticulture" for Gardeners and Botanists. Ed. George Nicholson, L.Upcott
Gill (ca. 1888), 12 volumes. Lavishly illustrated with B&W line drawings and
some colour plates. How to grow anything from anywhere, good on worldwide
and tropical species as well as temperate. Definitely what to use when
there's no Internet available.

3. "Sanders' Encyclopaedia of Gardening" rev. A.J. MacSelf, Collingridge,
London, 477 pp. Many reprints from 1895 onwards (mine is 1945). How to
grow anything, useful as a botanical or horticultural reference for a
temperate climate.

someone

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Does anybody else have a list of old favourites which you would like to
share your knowledge of.

Don


I use these three more than any of my other gardening/horticulture books:

1. "Practical Gardening and Food Production in Pictures" by Richard Sudell,
Odhams Press, London, 384 pp. No date, but probably early 40's since there
is a chapter on how to adapt your garden in wartime. Covers everything from
garden construction through propagation, pests, flowers, the kitchen garden,
growing fruit, allotments, keeping rabbits and poultry, and more. Full of
interesting B&W photographs and diagrams of how-to. A very practical and
down-to-earth book.

2. "The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening: An Encyclopedia of
Horticulture" for Gardeners and Botanists. Ed. George Nicholson, L.Upcott
Gill (ca. 1888), 12 volumes. Lavishly illustrated with B&W line drawings and
some colour plates. How to grow anything from anywhere, good on worldwide
and tropical species as well as temperate. Definitely what to use when
there's no Internet available.

Yes,!!!!!!!! "The illustrated Dictionary of Gardening", I have the 4
Volume set, Dated 1888, a wonderful set of reference books, and as you
say, beautifully illustrated and a mine of information. I dig them out
when everything else has failed. My son gave them to me on my 60th
birthday, he lived in Hay and procured them for me.
Don
3. "Sanders' Encyclopaedia of Gardening" rev. A.J. MacSelf, Collingridge,
London, 477 pp. Many reprints from 1895 onwards (mine is 1945). How to
grow anything, useful as a botanical or horticultural reference for a
temperate climate.

someone

"Donwill" wrote in message
...
I have a number of old favourites which I browse through now and again,
here's a list of a few of mine

Creating your Garden, Ian G Walls. my first gardening book, purchased in
1969.

The readers digest Complete Library of the Garden, 1st Edition.

The four books by Michael Howarth-Booth.

Some of Beverly Nichols' books, Garden Open Tomorrow is favourite.

Terrace and Courtyard Gardens by A D B Wood.

These are a few of the ones I keep returning to for inspiration and ideas
but I found it difficult to choose from the many.

Does anybody else have a list of old favourites which you would like to
share your knowledge of.

Don

i like "Insect pests of glasshouse crops" by Miles & Miles (published
privately by H.C. Long in 1935). It amuses me greatly as it reflects an age
where 'elf&safety were noticeable by their absence. Here is a typical quote
on fumigating a greenhouse with hydrocyanic acid:

"The gas is highly poisonous to man, and the operator must leave the
greenhouse quickly once the fumigation is started, especially when the gas
is liberated rapidly as in the "pot" method."

FYI, the "pot" method involved getting a container with about 100ml of 33%
sulphuric acid in it, and dropping around 30g of sodium cyanide into it.
The amazing thing is that for large greenhouses several of these containers
would be used, so the operator would have to get to the next one pretty
sharpish after dropping the cyanide into the previous one!

--

Jeff

In article ,
Jeff Layman wrote:

i like "Insect pests of glasshouse crops" by Miles & Miles (published
privately by H.C. Long in 1935). It amuses me greatly as it reflects an age
where 'elf&safety were noticeable by their absence. Here is a typical quote
on fumigating a greenhouse with hydrocyanic acid:

"The gas is highly poisonous to man, and the operator must leave the
greenhouse quickly once the fumigation is started, especially when the gas
is liberated rapidly as in the "pot" method."

FYI, the "pot" method involved getting a container with about 100ml of 33%
sulphuric acid in it, and dropping around 30g of sodium cyanide into it.
The amazing thing is that for large greenhouses several of these containers
would be used, so the operator would have to get to the next one pretty
sharpish after dropping the cyanide into the previous one!

That was also used to rid ships of rats. Because hudrogen cyanide
forms an explosive mixture with air, the ships' lighting had to be
off at the time ....


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

"Donwill" wrote in message
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2. "The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening: An Encyclopedia of
Horticulture" for Gardeners and Botanists. Ed. George Nicholson,
L.Upcott Gill (ca. 1888), 12 volumes. Lavishly illustrated with B&W line
drawings and some colour plates. How to grow anything from anywhere, good
on worldwide and tropical species as well as temperate. Definitely what
to use when there's no Internet available.

Yes,!!!!!!!! "The illustrated Dictionary of Gardening", I have the 4
Volume set, Dated 1888, a wonderful set of reference books, and as you
say, beautifully illustrated and a mine of information. I dig them out
when everything else has failed. My son gave them to me on my 60th
birthday, he lived in Hay and procured them for me.
Don

Snap! Mine were a 50th birthday present and my partner had to get them the
90 miles from a bookshop near Kew to where we live in N. Wilts - by bus.
The lot weights 18 lbs!

someone

wrote:
In article ,
Jeff Layman wrote:

i like "Insect pests of glasshouse crops" by Miles & Miles (published
privately by H.C. Long in 1935). It amuses me greatly as it
reflects an age where 'elf&safety were noticeable by their absence.
Here is a typical quote on fumigating a greenhouse with hydrocyanic
acid:

"The gas is highly poisonous to man, and the operator must leave the
greenhouse quickly once the fumigation is started, especially when
the gas is liberated rapidly as in the "pot" method."

FYI, the "pot" method involved getting a container with about 100ml
of 33% sulphuric acid in it, and dropping around 30g of sodium
cyanide into it. The amazing thing is that for large greenhouses
several of these containers would be used, so the operator would
have to get to the next one pretty sharpish after dropping the
cyanide into the previous one!

That was also used to rid ships of rats. Because hudrogen cyanide
forms an explosive mixture with air, the ships' lighting had to be
off at the time ....


Even less practical use, but I wouldn't be parted from my 1935 _Tropical
Planting and Gardening_, by H.F.Macmillan, once boss of the Royal
Botanic Gardens, Ceylon. Just a wonderful read, even if you don't have
much trouble with elephants, and have like me always resisted the
temptation to deal with thievish locals by the forthright expedient of
"a good thrashing". Macmillan is also a fan of cyanide; but he deals
with the safety issue as follows: "wrap the cyanide [of potassium] in a
thin paper bag and drop into the acid and water, by means of a string
passing through a trap-door and released from outside."

--
Mike.

In article ,
Mike Lyle wrote:

Even less practical use, but I wouldn't be parted from my 1935 _Tropical
Planting and Gardening_, by H.F.Macmillan, once boss of the Royal
Botanic Gardens, Ceylon. Just a wonderful read, even if you don't have
much trouble with elephants, and have like me always resisted the
temptation to deal with thievish locals by the forthright expedient of
"a good thrashing". Macmillan is also a fan of cyanide; but he deals
with the safety issue as follows: "wrap the cyanide [of potassium] in a
thin paper bag and drop into the acid and water, by means of a string
passing through a trap-door and released from outside."

I've got that, too! It's actually more useful in the UK than might
appear, because it gives a good idea of when many conservatory
plants are no-hopers except in specialist plant-houses.



Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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Even less practical use, but I wouldn't be parted from my 1935 _Tropical
Planting and Gardening_, by H.F.Macmillan, once boss of the Royal Botanic
Gardens, Ceylon. Just a wonderful read, even if you don't have much
trouble with elephants, and have like me always resisted the temptation to
deal with thievish locals by the forthright expedient of "a good
thrashing". Macmillan is also a fan of cyanide; but he deals with the
safety issue as follows: "wrap the cyanide [of potassium] in a thin paper
bag and drop into the acid and water, by means of a string passing through
a trap-door and released from outside."

--
Mike.

Has the man no sense of adventure??!!

--

Jeff

"Gardeners Enquire Within, 1930's.

Can't do without soot.

Regards


"Donwill" a écrit dans le message de
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I have a number of old favourites which I browse through now and again,
here's a list of a few of mine

Creating your Garden, Ian G Walls. my first gardening book, purchased in
1969.

The readers digest Complete Library of the Garden, 1st Edition.

The four books by Michael Howarth-Booth.

Some of Beverly Nichols' books, Garden Open Tomorrow is favourite.

Terrace and Courtyard Gardens by A D B Wood.

These are a few of the ones I keep returning to for inspiration and ideas
but I found it difficult to choose from the many.

Does anybody else have a list of old favourites which you would like to
share your knowledge of.

Don

Sure, cyanide isn't terribly good for you, but for the last century and a
half people seem to have been handling fairly large quantities of the stuff
in electroplating works.

Things aren't like they used to be, and apparantly it is no longer
appropriate to use the wheelbarrow to return victims of industrial accidents
to their loved ones.


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"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
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Even less practical use, but I wouldn't be parted from my 1935 _Tropical
Planting and Gardening_, by H.F.Macmillan, once boss of the Royal Botanic
Gardens, Ceylon. Just a wonderful read, even if you don't have much
trouble with elephants, and have like me always resisted the temptation
to deal with thievish locals by the forthright expedient of "a good
thrashing". Macmillan is also a fan of cyanide; but he deals with the
safety issue as follows: "wrap the cyanide [of potassium] in a thin paper
bag and drop into the acid and water, by means of a string passing
through a trap-door and released from outside."

--
Mike.

Has the man no sense of adventure??!!

--

Jeff

wrote:
In article ,
Mike Lyle wrote:

Even less practical use, but I wouldn't be parted from my 1935
_Tropical Planting and Gardening_, by H.F.Macmillan, once boss of
the Royal Botanic Gardens, Ceylon. Just a wonderful read, even if
you don't have much trouble with elephants, and have like me always
resisted the temptation to deal with thievish locals by the
forthright expedient of "a good thrashing". Macmillan is also a fan
of cyanide; but he deals with the safety issue as follows: "wrap the
cyanide [of potassium] in a thin paper bag and drop into the acid
and water, by means of a string passing through a trap-door and
released from outside."

I've got that, too! It's actually more useful in the UK than might
appear, because it gives a good idea of when many conservatory
plants are no-hopers except in specialist plant-houses.

Ah, that's a good point of practical usefulness: I'm glad he isn't just
a pretty page.

--
Mike.

"Mike Lyle" wrote in
:
Macmillan is also a fan of cyanide; but he deals
with the safety issue as follows: "wrap the cyanide [of potassium] in a
thin paper bag and drop into the acid and water, by means of a string
passing through a trap-door and released from outside."

Back then, it didn't matter so much if you "lost a few along
the way".

I have a copy of "The Boy Electrician" from 1935 which has
a section starting
Most young expeimenters are unaware what a wonderful
and interesting field is open to the possessor of a
small X-ray tube
and which then shows you how to use a hand-held
fluoroscope to "see" the X-rays.

Eventually it does get around to saying
If the skin be exposed directly to X-rays for only
a few minutes, an irritating and even dangerous
inflamation may result.It is therefore necessary
to be extremely careful not to overexpose any part
of the body to their influence.

Mind you, come to think of it, one of my daughter's
gliding instructors has been known to say that any
instructor has to be prepared to lose a few after
they've been sent solo And long may that
attitude continue!

"The illustrated Dictionary of Gardening", I have the 4 Volume set, Dated
1888, a wonderful set of reference books,
snippage!

Have found an online version here
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/6487#12
The quality of the scan isn't great but better than nothing if you don't
have a copy I guess :-)
You can download a pdf version but be warned it looks like they're about
30-35Mb per part

There is a better quality version here
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/48616#1
But only parts 1, 6 & 8 by the looks of it......