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Selected List of References Relating to Irrigation in California.

By: Venable, Reid.

Price: $15.00

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

Seller ID: 9683

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Agricultural Experiment Station, Circular No. 260. 62 pages, appendix, paper wrapper. Annotated bibliography of literature relating to irrigation in California. Covers annual reports to yearbooks by Department of Agriculture, Congress, Department of Commerce and Labor, Governors' Conference, Department of Interior, and Societies and Organizations.
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Vick's Flower and Vegetable Garden.

By: Vick, James

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Rochester, New York, Published By James Vick:

Seller ID: 11134

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Good

circa.1890. 214 pages; illustrations, color plates; index, ads; bound in dark tan cloth with floral decoration and title on the cover, gilt lettering on the spine. Wear to the top and bottom of the spine, bent corners on the covers. Former owner's signature in ink 'Ira E. Terry' on front flyleaf. Covers: flower cultivation; lawn and garden design; winter garden; insect enemies in house; floral decorations; watering; glossary and classification; annuals, perennials, bedding plants, bulbs, shrubs and climbers, roses, vegetables. Vick Seed Co was one of the largest nurseries in America during the...
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Les Fleurs, A Paris, Culture et Commerce.

By: Vilmorin, Philippe L. De

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Paris, France, Librairie J.-B. Bailliere et Fils: 1892

Seller ID: 12501

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

[Written in French] viii, 324 pages; illustrations; 1/4 vellum binding with leather label on the spine, wear to the top of the spine. The volume is devoted to gardening, the raising of flowers and identification. He also goes into the commercial production of flowers in France. A handsome book.
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Fruit-bud Development in Strawberry Varieties and Species.

By: Waldo, George F.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington, D. C., U.S. Dept of Agriculture: 1930

Seller ID: 8873

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Seperate in pamphlet form from JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, 40 #5 (March 1, 1930) pages 393-407. A study of the course of fruit-bud development in representative varieties and several species. Very clean copy with former owner's initials in ink at right top of cover.
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Nitrogenous Fertilizer Experiments, Delta Branch Station.

By: Walker, C.B., E.C. Ewing, and Ide P. Trotter.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Agricultural College, Mississippi, Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station.: 1922

Seller ID: 9862

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Bulletin no. 207. 24 pages; tables. Experiments using nitrogenous fertilizers in the Mississippi delta with the results and cost.
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The Plants of China and Their Usefulness to Man

By: Walker, Egbert H.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution: 1943

Seller ID: 14546

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

'From the Smithsonian Report for 1943, Pages 325-362 (Publication 3754)'. Pages 325-362; 12 plates; pale green paper wrapper (6 1/8 x 9 5/8 inch). Evidence of a fold, lower left corner. A brief essay of the botany and flora of China and the role it has played in its history and economy. Illustrations supplement the text. Very good clean copy.
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Inheritance of Fusarium Resistance in Cabbage.

By: Walker, J.C.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington, D. C., Govenment Printing Office: 1930

Seller ID: 9719

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Reprinted from JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, 40 (#8 April 15, 1930). Pages 721-745, illustrations, tables. Seperate in wrapper with former owner's initials on cover "H.E.T.". Study of plant genetics using selection to eleminate a disease attacking cabbage and its results.
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Diseases of Rose Caused By Species of Coniothyrium in the United States.

By: Waterman, Alma M.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office: 1930

Seller ID: 9729

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Reprinted from JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, 40 (#9 May 1, 1930). Pages 805-827, illustrations, tables, bibliography. An examination of cankers on diseased rose stems as caused by the species of Coniothyrium.
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Alfalfa Root Injuries Resulting from Freezing.

By: Weimer, J.L.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington, DC, Govenment Printing Office: 1930

Seller ID: 9706

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Reprinted from JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, 40 #2 (January 15, 1930) Pages 121-143. Seperate in paper wrapper; illustrations, tables, brief bibliography. Former owner's initials in pencil at top of cover "HET". Deals with the different varieties of alfalfa and their reaction to freezing.
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Some Factors Involved in the Winterkilling of Alfalfa.

By: Weimer, J.L.

Price: $15.00

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

Seller ID: 9726

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Reprinted from JOURNAL OF AGRICULTUREAL RESEARCH, 39 (#4 August 15, 1929). Gray wrapper, pages 263-283, illustrations, tables, charts, bibliography. ". this paper deals with only a limited phase of winter injury , no attempt has been made to give an exhautive survey of the literature, ."
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Temperature and Soil-Moisture Relations of Fusarium Oxysporum Va. Medicaginis.

By: Weimer, J.L.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington, D. C., Government Printing Office: 1930

Seller ID: 9737

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Reprinted from JOURNAL OF AGRICULTUREAL RESEARCH, 40 (#2 January 15, 1930). Pages 97-103, chart, bilbiography. A brief account of a study to determine the effect of temperature upon the growth of the disease and its ability to attack the alfalfa plant.
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Content in a Garden.

By: Wheeler, Dandace

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston, Mass, Houghton Mifflin and Company: 1901

Seller ID: 13024

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

209 pages; drawings; publisher's binding with a floral design, gilt lettering. Former owner's bookplate 'Emma Gray' inside the cover. A general account of gardening in the United States. Pages 61 and 117 is earmarked. Bottom of last page is chipped, approx 2 cm X 1 cm. Front and back covers are lightly soiled. Spine is sunned. Pages are clean and complete. Binding is tight.
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California Garden Flowers, Shrubs, Trees and Vines; Being Mainly Suggestions for Working Amateurs

By: Wickson, Edward J.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Pacific Rural Press: 1915

Seller ID: 1804

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Cloth. Illustrations. The author writes about California gardening: Climatic Characters and Advantages; Laying out the Garden; Hotbeds and Cold Frames; Planting, Pruning and Training; Lawns and Ground-Co vers; Open-Air Herbaceous Plants; Flowers for Hot, Dry Regions; Choice and Treatment of Arborescent Plants; etc. 262 pages, including index.
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The "Frozen-Pack" Method of Preserving Berries.

By: Wiegand, Ernest H.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Corvallis, Oregon, Oregon State Agricultural College: 1931

Seller ID: 8876

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

State Bulletin 278 (May 1931). 42 page pamphlet with photos, tables, and charts. Study of the packaging methods for Frozen-Pack, sugar vs. sirup, and style of packaging. Nice clean copy with former owner's initials in pencel on cover.
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Lilies. Their Culture and Management. Including A Complete Descriptive List of Species.

By: Woodcock, H. Drysdale

Price: $37.50

Publisher: London, Country Life Limited: 1935

Seller ID: 018014

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Original tan cloth with gilt and green lettering on front cover and spine. 5 3/4 X 9 inches. 242 pages. Copy has 130 black and white photographs and 1 color photograph. Contents include, the make-up of the lily, climate, position and soils, the lily bed, lilies, easy and otherwise, their place in the garden, the planting of the bulbs and their cultivation, the propagation of lilies. lilies in pots and in the greenhouse, hybridization, insect pests and diseases, the classification of the genera lilium and notholirion, the lilies of the world, distribution, nomenclature, abbreviations, alphabeti...
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An Islandian on the Islands : A Field Report By Austin T. Wright, Author of ISLANDIA, on the Southern California Islands of Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz, Written in a Letter to His Brother, John K. Wright, December 9, 1930. Introduced By Lawrence Clark Powell

By: Wright, Austin T., Introduction by Lawrence Clark Powell

Price: $47.50

Publisher: Los Angeles, California, Friends of the UCLA Library: 1963

Seller ID: 11520

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

'Reprinted from the SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA QUARTERLY, XLV (March 1963). 18 pages; light tan paper wrapper with the title on the cover (6 x 9 1/4 inch) stapled. An account of a botany trip to the Channel Islands of Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz with Austin T. Wright, author of Islandia (1942), Ralph Hoffmann, director of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, W.F. Daniell, a botanist, and Lester Rowntree. Some evidence of a fold to the lower right of the pamphlet, otherwise clean inside and outside.
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The Practical Book of Outdoor Flowers

By: Wright, Richardson

Price: $37.50

Publisher: J. B. Lippincott Company. 1924. Philadelphia.: 1924

Seller ID: 1761

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

First edition. Illustrated cloth. Illustrations. Untrimmed pages. Book sections include: Kinds of Soil (soil tests, topsoil and subsoil, compost and how to make it, etc.); Preparing the Soil; The Childhood of Plants (how to read and enjoy seed and n ursery catalogues); The Enemies of Plants; Managing a Garden; The story of Perennials; Rock Gardens; A Diversity of Gardens; etc.
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The Garden Centipede

By: Wymore, F.W.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Berkeley, California, University of California, Agricultural Extension Service.: 1931

Seller ID: 9816

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Bulletin 518 (November 1931). 22 pages; illustrations; wrapper. Deals with the centipede, its effect in the garden and farming, and use of flooding fields to control it. Former owner's name in ink at the top of the front cover 'Calvert E. Norland.'
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Effect of Various Fumigants on the Germination of Seeds.

By: Young, H.D.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington, D. C., Govenment Printing Office: 1930

Seller ID: 9713

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Reprinted from JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, 39 (#12 Decmeber 15, 1929). Pages 925-927, tables; paper wrapper. Former owner's initials in pencil "H.E.T."on the cover. Title says it all.
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