The water gardening idea book : how to build, plant, & maintain ponds, fountains, and basins
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Learn how to transform an ordinary backyard garden into a true showpiece. Originally published in 1924 under the original title of The Book of Water Gardening, Peter Bisset shares with readers timeless advice and tips for creating a variety of water gardens. After experiencing one, it's easy to see... Full description
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- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; I FOREWORD; II PONDS AND BASINS; The Importance of a Carefully Selected Site-Making Artificial Ponds; An Excellent Material for Artificial Pond Making; Excavating; Natural Ponds; Basins for the Amateur; III WINDBREAKS AND MARGINS; IV SOIL; Making the Compost-Fertilizers; Soil for Seedlings; V PLANTING AND WINTERING; Planting in soil on bottom of pond ; Planting in soil in boxes or tubs ; Cultural directions for aquatics ; Wintering tubers and rhizomes VI HARDY WATERLILIES; Selection of the best hardy waterlilies; VII NELUMBIUMS; Their Desirability in the Water Garden; In Boxes Submerged in Pond; Grown in Boxes or Half Barrels; Grown in Tubs on the Lawn; VIII HEATING THE TROPICAL LILY BASIN; IX TENDER OR TROPICAL WATERLILIES; Day Flowering; Night Flowering; X VICTORIA REGIA; XI THE SMALL WATER GARDEN; Selections of the Best Waterlilies and Aquatic Plants for the Beginner; XII MISCELLANEOUS AQUATIC PLANTS; XIII THE AQUATIC PLANT GREENHOUSE; Waterlilies for Winter Flowering; XIV PROPAGATION OF WATERLILIES; Raising Waterlilies from Seed; Propagation of Tender Waterlilies; By division-hybridizing and Seed Saving; Waterlilies that Bear Seed ; XV FOR THE COMMERCIAL CUT FLOWER GROWER; Suitable Ponds, Culture, and Varieties; XVI TENDER SUBTROPICAL PLANTS FOR MARGINS AND BORDERS; XVII HARDY PERENNIALS FOR MARGIN AND BORDER PLANTING; XVIII NATIVE ORCHIDS, SARRACENIAS, AND OTHER BOG PLANTS; XIX HARDY FERNS; XX ORNAMENTAL GRASSES AND BAMBOOS; XXI INSECTS, DISEASES, AND ENEMIES; Aphides-A destructive Leaf Miner; nymphaea Leaf Beetle-other Larval Pests; A Fungoid disease-Algae and Confervae-rats and Mice; The Water Snake-Turtles-Crawfish; XXII GOLD AND OTHER FISH FOR PONDS.