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True Temper Garden Book. How to Have Finer Flowers, Vegetables, Lawns

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cleveland Ohio, The American Fork & Hoe Co.: 1937

Seller ID: 017568

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Original green, black, white and orange illustrated wrapper with a garden scene on the front cover. 6 X 9 inches. 112 pages which include 16 pages of garden notes in the back. Numerous black and white illustrations. Topics discussed in this copy are, planning the home grounds, the soil: foundation of gardening success, preparing the seed bed, hotbeds and cold frames for early plants, transplanting seedling plants, when to plant outdoors, the vegetable garden, planting and care, cultural directions for 56 garden vegetables and small fruit, flower gardening, lawns, pruning fruit and ornamental t...
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Original Stereocard Photograph. "No. 2483 Floral Fountain, National Military Home O."

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Chicago,, Picturesque America, Gates Brothers:

Seller ID: 017784

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Very Good

Original stereocard photograph. Card measures, 7 X 3 1/2, photograph measures 6 X 3 inches. Photograph shows a large green tree with smaller green foliage surrounding and a lake in the background. Card is slightly bowed. Card is clean.
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U.S. Department Of Agriculture Farmers' Bulletin No. 829 Asparagus

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington D.C., United States Department of Agriculture: 1927

Seller ID: 018416

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Original black and white wrapper with black lettering and photograph on the front cover. 5 3/4 X 9 inches. 17 pages. Copy contains 11 black and white photographs. Contents in this issue, extent of the industry, soils for asparagus and their preparation, manures and fertilizers, growing asparagus roots, planting asparagus roots, cultivation of asparagus, care after the cutting season, duration of a plantation, harvesting and packing, asparagus rust, asparagus varieties, insects, canning, forcing and cost of production and returns. Copy is clean and complete. Binding is tight.
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Original Cabinet Card Photograph - "Koln: 814. Flora."

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Dresden, Germany, Rommler and Jonas: 1892

Seller ID: 020359

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Original cabinet card on beige board. Black and white photograph. Text is in German. Board measures 4 1/4" x 6 1/2"; photograph measures 3 3/4" x 5 3/4." Cabinet card is very clean and intact with minimal age wear and one piece of tape on back. A fine copy. This is a beautiful photograph that shows the Flora und Botanischer Garten Koln (or Flora park) in Cologne. Part of the garden is shown in the foreground and a glass orangery or greenhouse is in the background. The Flora park was established in 1893 and is still open to this day. "Koln" (Cologne) is printed ...
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Vick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine. Vol. I.---1878.

By: N/A

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Rochester, NY, James Vick: 1878

Seller ID: 021235

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Volume I, complete. First edition in book form. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. Lightly impressed decorations on front and back covers. 6 3/8" x 9 3/8." Color plates and black and white illustrations, complete. Covers are very clean and intact. Pages are clean and intact overall but there is light dampstaining throughout but limited to the bottom margin. Offsetting on pages facing the color plates. Tear on Pages 257-258; text is still present but a bit difficult to read. One color plate facing Page 129 is loose. This book contains a...
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Wild Flowers of Northern California, Oregon and Washington

By: "Outdoor" Franklin, Richfield Road Scout

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA?, Richfield Oil Company: 1933

Seller ID: 020750

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Original publisher's multicolored wrapper with staple binding and an illustration of a scenic Californian landscape on both covers. 3" x 6." Twenty-five pages, complete. Multiple reprinted photographs and illustrations in black and white and color, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Staples very slightly rusted internally. A fine copy. This is a promotional souvenir booklet by the Richfield Oil Company. Richfield encourages readers to take a sightseeing tour by car to see wildflowers along the West Coast. The inside of the front cover advertises the company'...
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California Farm Tenancy and Methods of Leasing.

By: Adams, R.L.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Berkeley, California, University of California, College of Agriculture: 1923

Seller ID: 9684

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Agricultureal Experiment Station, Circular No. 272. 48 pages, map, paper wrapper. Covers status of farm tenancy in California; leasing practices for farming, dairies, livestock ranges, poultry plants, various crops; legal requirements and framework; provisions for various types of leases. Discusses leasing methods of Sacramento and San Joaquin Deltas.
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Original Duck Stamp Print with Stamp - "Gadwall"

By: Allen, Charles

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota, Voyageur Art: 1983

Seller ID: 015699

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-As New

No. 1077 of 1990 signed by artist. Includes 1983 Nevada Department of Wildlife Stamp based on this print. Print size 9 x 6 1/2 inches, paper size 14 x 12 inches. Backed by white cardboard in shrink wrap. Lovely print of two Gadwall ducks in flight over a lake. Charles Allen is a San Francisco Bay area artist who has won the California, Nevada, Colorado and Rhode Island Duck Stamp Competitions.
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Original Duck Stamp Print with Stamp - "Green-Winged Teall"

By: Allen, Charles

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota, Voyageur Art: 1983

Seller ID: 015700

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-As New

No. 579 of 750 signed by artist. Includes 1983 California Duck Stamp based on this print. Print size 9 x 6 1/2 inches, paper size 14 x 12 inches. Backed by white cardboard in shrink wrap. Lovely print of two Green-Winged Teal ducks in flight over a lake. Charles Allen is a San Francisco Bay area artist who has won the California, Nevada, colorado and Rhode Island Duck Stamp Competitions.
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Apple Growing in California.

By: Allen, F.W.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Berkeley, California, University of California, Agricultural Experiment Station.: 1937

Seller ID: 9897

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Bulletin 425, revised. 95 pages pamphlet; illustrations, tables; wraps. Goes into all the areas of cultivation of apples along with the results of studies carried out by the university. Deals also with the wide varities from Winter Bananas to Tompkins King, where to plant them and best ways of marketing them localy and nationally. Good overview of the state of apple production in California during the 1930s and what technology was envolved.
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Flowers and Their Pedigrees

By: Allen, Grant

Price: $37.50

Publisher: D. Appleton and Company. 1884. New York.: 1884

Seller ID: 1802

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

First American edition. Illustrated cloth. Illustrations. As stated by the author in the Preface, "these little essays originally appeared as articles. in periodicals". He writes briefly of the colorful and varied plant life in England and in detai l about some specific plants: The Daisy's Pedigree; The Romance of a Wayside Weed; Cleavers (goose-grass, a weed); etc.
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A Cytological Study of Heterothallism in Puccinia Graminis.

By: Allen, Ruth F.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington, D. C., Secretary of Agriculture: 1930

Seller ID: 9725

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Reprited from JOURNAL OF AGRICULTUREAL RESEARCH, 40 (#7 1930), pages 585-614, gray-green wrapper, illustrations, bibliography. A summation concerning heterothallism in the fungi thro 1930 with extensive bibliography.
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Con Nodule Bacteria of Leguminous Plants Fox Atmospheric Nitrogen in the Absence of the Host?

By: Allison, F.E.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Secretary of Agriculture: 1929

Seller ID: 9727

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Reprinted from JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, 29 (#12 December 15, 1929). Gray wrapper, pages 893-924, tables, bilbiography. Examination of the literauture dealing with Nitrogen-fixation of leguminous plants up through 1929.
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Le Bon Jardinier Almanach Pour L'Annee 1857: Contenant; Les Principes Generaux de Culture; L'Indication, Mois Par Mois, Des Travaux a Faire Dans Les Jardins; etc.

By: Anonymous

Price: $47.50

Publisher: Librairie Agricole De La Maison Rustique. 1857. Paris.: 1857

Seller ID: 1795

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Quarter leather with marbled boards. Illustrations. English title, The Good Gardener, an Almanac. Water stain upper right from title page through XLIX. Quite foxed.
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Proceedings of the American Society of Agronomy; Volume I, 1907, 1908, 1909; Volume 2, 1910; Volume 3, 1911

By: Anonymous

Price: $50.00

Publisher: American Society of Agronomy. 1910. (No City).: 1910

Seller ID: 3157

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Cloth. Illustrations. Vol. I (1907) through Vol. 3 (1911). A fourth volume was published in 1912. Volume 1 talks include: Development and Proper Status of Agronomy; The Testing of Varieties as Foundation Work in the Improvement of Farm Crops; The Si ze of Experiment Plots for Field Crops; Value of Field Study of Soils; Instruction in Soil Physics; Some Soil Problems in Oklahoma; etc. Split at spine at title page. Volume 2 talks include: A Test of Planting Plats with the Same Ears of Corn to Sec ure Greater Uniformity in Yield; The Theory of Soil Management; Some Causes of Soil Granulation; etc...
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Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the Year1884

By: Anonymous

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office: 1884

Seller ID: 3485

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

6 colored plates (animal disease); 35 black and white illustrations (plants, insects); 27 diagrams (agricultural production); 3 maps (Southern cattle fever). Sun fading to spine. Small white spots to top of front cover. 581 pages. Annual report to the President of the United States on the status of agriculture in the U. S. Includes crop production, cattle diseases, plant diseases, swine bacteria, insect infestations, remedies, etc.
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Original Stereocard Photograph - Views of Shaw's Missouri Botanical Garden

By: Anonymous

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 3912

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Circa 1900. Scene shows planted areas amid walkways with larger plants and a statue as the focal point. Some visitors strolling on walkways. No name of publisher, studio or date.
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Original Stereocard Photograph - Como Park, St. Paul, Minn. 1903

By: Anonymous

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, Underwood & Underwood: 1903

Seller ID: 4013

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Scene shows an embankment with a stairway of flowers forming designs and an entryway of flowers at the top of the stairs. A little girl is sitting on the embankment. Title is "The way to Fairyland, up stairway of flowers and through living Gates".
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Original Stereocard Photograph: "Burbank, the Plant Wizzard, Santa Rosa, Cal."

By: Anonymous

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Keystone View Company:

Seller ID: 8155

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Fine

3 1/4 x 7 inches. Shows Luther Burbank standing, circa 1915, among his spineless cactus. Numbered 235-16746 by the publisher. Two columns of text on back concerning Burbank and his horticulture experiments.
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Original Stereocard Photograph: Harvesting Oilves, Tulare County, California."

By: Anonymous

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Keystone View Company:

Seller ID: 8191

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Fine

3 1/4 x 7 i nches. Numbered 240-16745 by the publisher. Shows men in olive grove, one on a tall ladder, one manning the filled boxes and three picking olives while standing on ground. Circa 1910. Two columns of text on back discussing the olive growing industry worldwide.
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