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Over the summer of 2005, we received a collection of over 150 gardening books and periodicals from the Estate of the late Terry Vachon Leduc of Maxville, courtesy of her son Michael. Here is a categorized listing of the books. Members are invited to submit a brief review of each book from the collection that they sign out. The reviews will be added to this page as they are received.
Members may reserve and sign out books by e-mailing Brian at librarian@ovrghs.ca.
Alpines
Gardening with New Small Plants, Oliver E. Allen
Houghton Miflin Company, Boston, 1989, pp196
Mountain Flowers, Uberto Tosco
Orbis Publishing (Istituto Geografico de Agostini Novara), London, 1974, pp 128
My Rock Garden, Reginald Farrer
Edward Arnold/Theophrastus, London/Pawlet, Vermont, 1911/1971, pp 303
Portraits of Alpine Plants, R.C. Elliott
Alpine Garden Society Publication, London, pp 110
Rock Gardening, H. Lincoln Foster
Houghton Miflin Company, Boston, 1968, pp 466
Rock Gardening, Will Ingwerson
Ward Lock Limited, London, 1989, pp 95
The Creative Container Gardener, Elaine Stevens
Whitecap Books, Vancouver/Toronto, 1995, pp 216
Bulbs
Hardy Bulbs Vol. 1, E.B. Anderson
Penguin Books Ltd., 1964, pp 176
Lilies, Jan de Graaff
Funk & Wagnalls, 1968, pp 142
Lilies for Every Garden, Isabella Preston
Orange Judd Publishing Company Inc., New York, 1950, pp 352
The Complete Book of Bulbs, F.F. Rockwell & Esther Grayson
The American Garden Guild & Doubleday & Company Inc., Garden City, NY, 1953, pp 352
The Wonderful World of Bulbs, Bebe Miles
D. Van Nostrand Company Inc., Princeton, 1963, pp 348
Ferns
Ferns to Know and Grow, F. Gordon Foster
Hawthorn Books Inc., New York, 1971, pp 258The Gardener's Fern Book, F. Gordon Foster
D . Van Nostrand Company Inc., Princeton, 1964, pp 226
Garden Design
Along the Garden Path - More Quilters and their Gardens, Jean & Valori Wells
C&T Publishing Inc., Lafayette CA, 2001, pp 144
Flower Arrangements through the Year, Patricia Easterbrook Roberts
The Viking Press Inc., New York, 1963, pp 95
Flower Decoration in European Homes, Buffet-Challià
William Morrow & Company Inc., New York, 1969, pp 208
Flowers in the Winter Garden, M.M. Graff
Doubleday & Company Inc., Garden City, NY, 1966, pp 203
Garden Design, William Lake Douglas et al
Prentice Hall Canada Inc., Scarborough, 1984, pp 224
Garden Ideas A to Z, Elvin, McDonald
The American Garden Guild & Doubleday & Company Inc., Garden City, NY, 1970, pp 196
Japanese Garden and Floral Art, Mrs. Paul Kincaid
Hearthside Press Inc., New York, 1966, pp 189
RD Home Handbooks - Garden Planning, John Brookes
Dorling Kindersley Limited, London, 1992, pp 224
The Country Garden, Country Homes & Gardens
Country Homes and Gardens, New York, 2000, pp 176
The Englishman's Garden, Alvilde Lees-Milne & Rosemary Verey, editors
Allen Lane Penguin Books Ltd., London, 1983, pp 154
General Gardening
10,000 Garden Questions, F.F. Rockwell
Doubleday & Company Inc., New York, 1959, pp 1390
Gardening Week by Week, Xenia Field
Treasure Press, London, 1984, pp 128
My Garden in Spring, E.A. Bowles
Theophrastus Pawlet, Vermont, 1914/1971, pp 308
Principles of Horticulture, 2nd edition, Ervin L. Denison
MacMillan Publishing Company, 1979, pp 483
The Miniature Rose Book, Margaret E. Penney
D. Van Nostrand Company Inc., Princeton, 1964, pp 149
The White-Flower-Farm Garden Book, Amos Pettingill
Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1971, pp 366
Tout savoir sur les plantes d'intérieur, Marc Meloche
Éditions internationales, Alain Stank, Montreal, 1977, pp 203
Miscellaneous
Early American Gardens "For Meat or Medicine", Ann Leighton
Houghton Miflin Company, Boston, 1970, pp 439
Garden Tales Classic Stories from Favourite Writers, Jane Gottlieb
Viking Studio Books, 1990, pp 102
How to Open and Operate a Home-based Landscaping Business, Owen E. Dell
The Globe Pequot Press, Old Saybrook, Conn, 1994
Listening to the Garden Grow, Betty Sue Eaton
Stillpoint Publishing, Walpole N.H., 1966, pp 106
Ontario Snakes, Barbara Froom
Ontario Department of Lands and Forests
The After-Dinner Gardening Book, Richard W. Langer
Collier Books, New York, 1969, pp 198
The Art of Preserving Flowers A Guide for Canadians, Elizabeth MacDermot
James Lewis & Samuel, Publishers, Toronto, 1973, pp 87
Western American Alpines, Ira N. Gabrielson
The Macmillan Company/Theophrastus, New York/Sakonnet Pt RI, 1932/1972All Colour Book of Flowers, Moira Savonius
Octopus Books Limited, London, 1974, pp 72
Perennials
Delphiniums, Ronald Parrett
Penguin Books Ltd.in conjunction with RHS, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1961, pp 205
Reference/Dictionary
Collegiate Dictionary of Botany, Delbert Swartz
The Ronald Press Company, New York, 1971, pp 520
Diseases and Pests of Ornamental Plants, Pascal P. Pirone
John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1978, pp 566
Diseases of Ornamental Plants, Junius L. Forsberg
University of Illinois, Chicago, 1979, pp 222
Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Perennials, Ellen Phillips & Burrell C. Colston
Rodale Press, Emmaus, PA, 1993, pp 553
The Gardener's Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers, Christopher Brickell
Dorling Kindersley, London, 1989, pp 608
The Growth of Plants, G.E. Fogg
Penguin Books Ltd., 1970, pp 302
The Plants, Fritz W. Wents
Time-Life Books, New York, 1973, pp 194
The Self-Pronouncing Dictionary of Plant Names, Ralph Bailey
The American Garden Guild & Doubleday & Company Inc., Garden City, NY, 1962, pp 64
Using Wayside Plants, Nelson Coon
Hearthside Press Inc., New York, 1969, pp 288
Trees
Dwarf Shrubs, Donald Wyman
MacMillan Publishing Company, New York, 1975, pp 138
Espaliers and Vines for the Home Gardener, H.O. Perkins
D. Van Nostrand Company Inc., Princeton, 1964, pp 206
Gardening with Conifers and Heathers, Alan Toogood
Aura Editions, Marshall Cavendish Ltd., 1986, pp 89
Identification Guide to the Trees of Canada, Jean Lauriault
Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Markham, 1989, pp 479
The Peterson Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs, George A. Petrides
Houghton Miflin Company, Boston, 1986, pp 428
The Tree Identification Book, George W.D. Symonds
William Morrow & Company Inc., New York, 1958, pp 272
Trees of North America, C. Frank Brockman
Golden Press, New York, 1979, pp 280
Trees. A Guide to Familiar North American Trees, Herbert S. Zim & Alexander C. Martin
Golden Press, New York, 1956, pp 160
Weeds
Common Weeds of the United States, ARS, USDA
Dover Publications Inc., New York, 1971, pp 463
Ontario Weeds, F.H. Montgomery, C.M. Switzer, C.H. Kingsbury
Ontario Department of Agriculture, pp 114
Ontario Weeds, J. F. Alex & C.M. Switizer
Ministry of Agriculture and Food Ontario, pp 208
Rodale's Successful Organic Gardening Controlling Weeds, Erin Hynes
Rodale Press, Emmaus, PA, 1995, pp 160
Members may reserve and sign out books by e-mailing Brian at librarian@ovrghs.ca.