Plant Culture Books

Culinary Herbs - Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses

M. G. Kains

This book describes use and care, and growing of herbs for cooking, healing and other interesting miscellaneous information related to herbs. If this book shall instill or awaken in its readers t..

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses

K. Rangachari

This book is intended to serve as a guide to the study of grasses of the plains of South India. For the past few years I have been receiving grasses for identification, almost every week, from the off..

Cocoa and Chocolate - Their History from Plantation to Consumer

Arthur W. Knapp

In a few short chapters I propose to give a plain account of the production of cocoa and chocolate. I assume that the reader is not a specialist and knows little or nothing of the subject, and hence b..

The Little Tea Book

Arthur Gray

The Little Tea Book is a book on tea plantation written by Arthur Gray and co-authored by George Washington Hood.After all, tea is the drink! Domestically and socially it is the beverage of the world...

Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation

Hugo de Vries

The purpose of these lectures is to point out the means and methods by which the origin of species and varieties may become an object for experimental inquiry, in the interest of agricultural and hort..

A-B-C of Gardening

Eben E. Rexford

The first thing to do in making a garden is to spade up the soil to the depth of a foot. he second thing to do is to work this spaded-up soil over and over until it is thoroughly pulverized. The third..

Dry-Farming - A System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall

John A. Widtsoe

Nearly six tenths of the earth's land surface receive an annual rainfall of less than twenty inches, and can be reclaimed for agricultural purposes only by irrigation and dry-farming. A perfected worl..

Organic Gardener's Composting

Steve Solomon

The art and science of composting is presented in a humorous and readable manner from the basic elements to the in-depth science. An entire chapter is devoted to composting with red worms (vermicultur..