From Gardening Don’ts (1913) by M.C. 22
DON’T be too definite. Where everything is cut and dried, charm vanishes. Read and Download the entire book from Archive.org * A portion of each sale from Amazon.com directly supports Continue Reading
From Gardening Don’ts (1913) by M.C. 21
DON’T think you have tasted the real joy of gardening till you stand below on the grass, working at your wall rock garden — without breaking your back! Read and Continue Reading
From Gardening Don’ts (1913) by M.C. 20
DON’T build your wall of new, bright red bricks and make it look like a rail- way embankment ! Read and Download the entire book from Archive.org * A portion Continue Reading
From Gardening Don’ts (1913) by M.C. 19
DON’T forget the value of a background for your flowers. How lovely is a grass bowling green, with a little brick wall surrounding it on three sides, at the foot Continue Reading
From Gardening Don’ts (1913) by M.C. 18
DON’T (no matter how much you may wish them to grow there) put any plants in a spot where they will not be happy. Read and Download the entire book Continue Reading
From Gardening Don’ts (1913) by M.C. 17
DON’T try to make a daffodil hedge. They look so miserable standing stiffly like soldiers ‘ at atten- tion,’ instead of scattered about in happy groups. Read and Download the Continue Reading
From Gardening Don’ts (1913) by M.C. 15
DON’T brag about your gardening exploits — it is so dull for listeners, who don’t want to hear about (even if they believe in them) the ‘masses and masses’ of Continue Reading
From Gardening Don’ts (1913) by M.C. 14
DON’T, when you see a border of flowers over which many hours of patient toil have been expended, fix your attention exclusively on a sun-dial in the middle of a Continue Reading
From Gardening Don’ts (1913) by M.C. 13
DON’T, if your neighbour prides himself on the beauty of the garden he has made, tell him that the fine trees he found there when he came constitute its chiefbeauty! Continue Reading
Historical Garden Books – 63 in a series – A Treatise on the Culture of the Apple & Pear: And on the Manufacture of Cider & Perry (1801) by Thomas Andrew Knight
Historical Garden Books – 63 in a series – A Treatise on the Culture of the Apple & Pear: And on the Manufacture of Cider & Perry (1801) by Thomas Continue Reading