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Domestic titans
Feeling trapped by the idea that an impenetrable carapace of space trash could surround the planet, Elvia Wilk turned to thoughts of the new worlds still to be revealed here on Earth.
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Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
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Garden foes : insect, animal and fungoid pests injurious to fruit and vegetable crops, hardy plants, trees, shrubs and greenhouse plants, with all the latest remedies for their eradication / by T.W. Sanders.
Sanders, T. W. (Thomas William), 1855-1926.Date: [1910]- Books
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A catalogue of greenhouse plants, hardy trees and shrubs, herbaceous, bulbous-rooted, and stove plants, arranged by their Latin botanic names, with an English index refering to their Latin names. With a collection of the most esteemed varieties of fruit-trees, and seeds for the kitchen-garden, flower-garden, flowering-shrubs, forest-trees, and for improving of land. Sold by Daniel Grimwood, Nurseryman, at Little-Chelsea.
Grimwood, Daniel.Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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The modern gardener: or, Universal kalendar. Containing monthly directions for all the operations of gardening, to be done either in the kitchen, fruit, flower, and pleasure gardens, as likewife in the greenhouse and stove, with the method of performing the different works, according to the best practice of the most eminent gardeners. Also an appendix, giving full and ample instructions for forcing grape vines, peach, nectarine trees, &c. in a new manner, never before published. Illustrated with thirteen plates, neatly engraved, of entire new plans for stoves, greenhouses, forcing frames, and designs for laying out kitchen, flower, and pleasure gardens, agreeable to the modern taste. To the whole is added, a catalogue of kitchen garden plants and herbs, with the parts made use of in cookery; fruit trees of the best sorts, bulbous-rooted flowers, annual, biennial, and perennial herbacenus flower plants, herbs for distilling and medicine, forest trees, flowering shrubs and evergreens, with great variety of curious greenhouse and stove plants, being a much more complete list than any hitherto published in works of this kind. Selected from the diary manuscripts of the late Mr. Hitt, formerly gardener to Lord Robert Manners, at Bloxholm, in Lincolnshire, and to Lord Robert Bertie, at Chislehurst in Kent. Revised, corrected, and very much improved, with many new additions, By James Meader, late gardener to the Earl of Chesterfield.
Hitt, Thomas, -1770?.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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The complete kitchen gardener, and hot bed forcer; with the thorough practical management of Hot-Houses, Fire-Walls, and Forcing-Houses, and the improved modern culture of the Pinery-Stoves, and Pine-Apples, being A thorough practical Display of these most capital Branches of Gardening in their General Culture, and agreeable to the present greatly improved modern Process; whereby that most importantly-useful District the Kitchen Garden, and all its Appurtenances of Hot-Beds, Hot-Houses, Hot-Walls, Forcing-Houses, Pinery-Stoves, &c. and the Culture of their several various Productions in superior Perfection and greatest Abundance, are fully explained in a Manner never before done for general Instruction, as requiring a particular distinct Explanation; and now first completely accomplished, from the Result of above Forty Years daily practical Experience and Observation. Author of Every Man his own Gardener, commonly called Mawe's Gardener's Kalendar; but the work of J. A. only.
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Pictures
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Four ornamental greenhouse flowers, including coral bush (Templetonia retusa). Coloured lithograph, c. 1848.
Date: [1848]Reference: 24647i