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Horticulture

Here are entered works on the commercial cultivation of fruits, vegetables, nuts and ornamental plants.

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• Horticulture -- Canada
• Horticulture -- Congresses
• Horticulture -- Florida
• Horticulture -- Great Britain
• Horticulture -- Hawaii
• Horticulture -- History
• Horticulture -- Italy
• Horticulture -- Periodicals
• Horticulture -- Poland
• Horticulture -- Prairie Provinces
• Horticulture -- Southern States
• Cloche gardening
• Electrohorticulture
• Forcing (Plants)
• Fruit-culture
• Greenhouses
• Horticultural crops
• Horticultural products
• Hydroponics
• Landscape gardening
• Nurseries (Horticulture)
• Ornamental horticulture
• Planting (Plant culture)
• Plants -- Training
• Pruning
• Sustainable horticulture
• Truck farming
• Vegetable gardening

• Horticultural science
• Horticultural sciences

• Proceedings of a Congress of Horticulture, Held at Jamestown Exposition, September 23, 1907, by National Council of Horticulture (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Hawaiian Planter, Volume I: His Plants, Methods and Areas of Cultivation (only volume published; Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #161; Honolulu: The Museum, 1940), by E. S. Craighill Handy (page images at HathiTrust)

• The American Gardener (partial serial archives)
• American Horticulturist (full serial archives)
• Acta Agrobotanica (full serial archives)
• The American Horticultural Magazine (full serial archives)
• The National Horticultural Magazine (full serial archives)
• Gardeners' Chronicle (partial serial archives)
• Horticulture (partial serial archives)
• Canadian Journal of Plant Science (1957-; issues more than 1 year old free to read online) (partial serial archives)
• Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society (partial serial archives)
• Journal of the Horticultural Society of London (1846-1855) (full serial archives)

• Horticulture in the North: A Guide to Fruit Growing in the Prairie Provinces of Canada (St. Charles, MB: Western Horticultural Society, 1907), by D. W. Buchanan
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The French Garden: A Diary and Manual of Intensive Cultivation (London: Associated Newspapers, Ltd., 1908), by C. D. McKay
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Electricity in Agriculture and Horticulture (London: "The Electrician" Printing and Pub. Co.; et al., 1904), by Selim Lemström (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Elektrokultur: Erhöhung der Ernte-Erträge aller Kultur-Pflanzen durch Elektrische Behandlung (in German; Berlin: W. Junk, 1902), by Selim Lemström, trans. by Otto Pringsheim (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The French Garden: A Diary and Manual of Intensive Cultivation (London: Associated Newspapers, Ltd., 1908), by C. D. McKay
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The French Garden in England: A Diary and Manual of Intensive Cultivation (London: The Daily Mail, ca. 1909), by C. D. McKay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Fruit Culture and the Laying Out and Management of a Country Home (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1885), by W. C. Strong
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Hand-Book for Fruit Growers: Containing a Short History of Fruits and Their Value, Instructions as to Soils and Locations, How to Grow From Seeds, How to Bud and Graft, the Making of Cuttings, Pruning, Best Age for Transplanting, Etc., Etc.; With a Condensed List of Varieties Suited to Climate (Rochester, NY: D. M. Dewey, 1876), by F. R. Elliott (page images at Cornell)
• Home Fruit Grower (New York: A. T. De La Mare, 1918), by M. G. Kains (multiple formats at archive.org)
• How to Raise Fruits: A Handbook of Fruit-Culture (New York: S. R. Wells and Co., 1877), by Thomas Gregg (page images at Cornell)
• Home Vegetable Gardening: A Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing For Home Use, by F. F. Rockwell (Gutenberg text)
• The American Gardener's Assistant, by Thomas Bridgeman (page images at MOA)
• Fruits of Warm Climates, by Julia F. Morton (illustrated HTML at Purdue)
• Ten Acres Enough: A Practical Experience, Showing How a Very Small Farm May be Made to Keep a Very Large Family, With Extensive and Profitable Experience in the Cultivation of the Smaller Fruits (eighth edition; New York: J. Miller, 1866), by Edmund Morris (Gutenberg text)

• The Complete Guide to Soilless Gardening (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1940), by W. F. Gericke (page images at HathiTrust)

• Palette of Plants: Sequel to Planting Design (Champaign, IL: Garrard Press, c1950), by Florence Bell Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Planting Design (New York and London: Whittlesey house, McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1940), by Florence Bell Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art of Beautifying Suburban Home Grounds of Small Extent (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1870), by Frank J. Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Garden as a Picture (extract from Scribner's magazine, 1907), by Beatrix Farrand, illust. by Henry McCarter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Villa Gardener: Comprising the Choice of a Suburban Villa Residence; the Laying Out, Planting, and Culture of the Garden and Grounds; and the Management of the Villa Farm, Including the Dairy and Poultry-Yard (London: W. S. Orr and co., 1850), by J. C. Loudon, ed. by Mrs. Loudon (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Amateur Garden (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1914), by George Washington Cable (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Old-Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth (New York and London: Macmillan, 1901), by Alice Morse Earle
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Old-Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth (New York and London: Macmillan, 1902), by Alice Morse Earle (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Followed by a Description of the Plants, Shrubs and Trees for the Open-Air Garden and Their Culture (13th edition; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1921), by W. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the Late Humphrey Repton, Esq.: Being His Entire Works on These Subjects (London and Edinburgh: Printed for the editor, and sold by Longman and Co., and A. and C. Black, 1840), by Humphry Repton, ed. by J. C. Loudon
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• A Woman's Hardy Garden (New York and London: Macmillan, 1903), by Helena Rutherfurd Ely, illust. by Charles Frederick Chandler (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Water Wise: Native Plants for Intermountain Landscapes (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2003), by Wendy Mee, Jared Barnes, Roger K. Kjelgren, and Richard K. Sutton (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• The French Garden in England: A Diary and Manual of Intensive Cultivation (London: The Daily Mail, ca. 1909), by C. D. McKay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Book of a Thousand Gardens: Being the True Accounts of the Trials and Tribulations and Successes in a Dry Year of Something Less Than a Thousand Gardens in Many States and Climates, As Told in a Bunch of Letters to Henry Field by His Loyal Friends, His Customers (Shenandoah, IA: Henry Field Seed Co., c1912), ed. by Henry Field
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Everyman's Garden in Wartime (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1917), by Charles A. Selden (page images at Wisconsin)
• The French Garden: A Diary and Manual of Intensive Cultivation (London: Associated Newspapers, Ltd., 1908), by C. D. McKay
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Home Vegetable Gardening: A Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing For Home Use, by F. F. Rockwell (Gutenberg text)
• A Manual of Vegetable Plants (Factoryville, PA: Tillinghast Bros., 1878), by Isaac F. Tillinghast (page images at Cornell)
• The Profitable Culture of Vegetables for Market Gardeners, Small Holders, and Others (London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1913), by Thomas Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Treatise on Gardening: By a Citizen of Virginia, John Randolph, Jr. (1727-1784), Reprinted from the American Gardener of John Gardiner and David Hepburn, Third Edition, 1826 (Richmond: Reprinted by Appeals Press for the William Parks Club, 1924), by John Randolph, ed. by Marjorie Fleming Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• War Gardens: A Pocket Guide for Home Vegetable Growers (New York: Harper and Bros., 1918), by Montague Free (page images at Wisconsin)
• French Gardening (London: J. Fels, Utopia Press, 1909), by Thomas Smith, contrib. by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, illust. by A. Garrett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Vegetable Garden: Illustrations, Descriptions and Culture of the Garden Vegetables of Cold and Temperate Climates (English edition; New York: Dutton and Co., 1905), by Vilmorin-Andrieux et cie., ed. by W. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Vegetable Garden: Illustrations, Descriptions and Culture of the Garden Vegetables of Cold and Temperate Climates (third English edition; New York: Dutton and Co., 1920), by Vilmorin-Andrieux et cie., ed. by W. Robinson, contrib. by W. P. Thomson (multiple formats at archive.org)

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