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The Greenhouse and Nursery Historic book collection is a fascinating look at greenhouse and horticulture technologies at the turn of the 20th century. The 41 books in this collection discuss all aspects of greenhouse construction and management, raising food and ornamental plants successfully in a greenhouse environment as well as pest control and other aspects of day to day running of a successful greenhouse.

Since greenhouses are a mature science, much of what is discussed in these books is still in common practice today so the collection also makes an excellent reference set for those looking to do greenhouse gardening in their yards.

Many of the books are heavily illustrated and some have color prints in them.

All the titles contained on this CD are listed below.

1. Greenhouse management (1898) - Taft, Levi Rawson - 412 pages
2. Greenhouse management for amateurs - May, William J - 402 pages
3. The unheated greenhouse (1907) - Davidson, K. L - 316 pages
4. Foley better built and heated greenhouse (1920) - Foley Greenhouse Mfg. Co - 40 pages
5. Sub-irrigation in the greenhouse (1893) - Rane, F. Wm. (Frank William) - 24 pages
6. American Greenhouse Construction Heating And Equipment (1927) - Richard T. Muller - 156 pages
7. Fertilizer experiments with greenhouse lettuce and tomatoes (1927) - Lloyd, John William - 40 pages
8. Plant propagation; greenhouse and nursery practice (1916) - Kains, M. G. (Maurice Grenville) - 358 pages
9. Diseases of greenhouse crops and their control (1920) - Taubenhaus, Jacob Joseph - 620 pages
10. Favourite flowers of garden and greenhouse Volume 1 (1896) - Step, Edward; Watson, William - 204 pages
11. Favourite flowers of garden and greenhouse Volume 2 (1896) - Step, Edward; Watson, William - 214 pages
12. Favourite flowers of garden and greenhouse Volume 3 (1896) - Step, Edward; Watson, William - 202 pages
13. The book of the greenhouse, with a special chapter on the little town greenhouse (1908) - Tallack, J. C - 138 pages
14. Hand-book of garden & greenhouse culture in Tasmania (1884) - Wade, Thomas - 41 pages
15. The handbook to the flower garden and greenhouse (1859) - Glenny, George - 432 pages
16. The culture of greenhouse orchids, old system and new (1902) - Boyle, Frederick - 280 pages
17. The amateur's greenhouse and conservatory : a handy guide to the construction and management of planthouses, and the selection, cultivation, and improvement of ornamental greenhouse and conservatory plants (1873) - Hibberd, Shirley - 306 pages
18. Breeding two new varieties of greenhouse tomatoes resistant to fusarium wilt (1930) - Huelsen, W. A. (Walter August); Gillis, Merl Conrad - 40 pages
19. Choice stove and greenhouse flowering plants, comprising descriptions of upwards of thirteen hundred species and varieties, .. (1883) - Williams, Benjamin Samuel - 561 pages
20. Dean's system of greenhouse heating by steam or hot water, with formulas for obtaining different temperatures .. (1901) - Dean, Mark - 64 pages
21. Chrysanthemums for garden and greenhouse. A practical treatise on the propagation and culture of early flowering, decorative and market kinds - Crane, Daniel Burton; Sanders, T. W. (Thomas William) - 225 pages
22. The fern manual : Being a description of all the best stove, greenhouse, and hardy ferns, cultivated in British gardens (1863) - 252 pages
23. Greenhouse pests; a manual of practice in the control of insects and other pests attacking ornamental plants and flowers grown under glass in Illinois (1930) - Compton, Charles C - 125 pages
24. American flower-garden directory : containing practical directions for the culture of plants in the flower-garden, hot-house, green-house, rooms, or parlour windows ... (1854) - Buist, Robert - 360 pages
25. Bulbs and tuberous-rooted plants; their history, description, methods of propagation and complete directions for their successful culture in the garden, dwelling and greenhouse (1893) - Allen, Charles Linnaeus - 327 pages
26. Garden foes : insect, animal and fungoid pests injurious to fruit and vegetable crops, hardy plants, trees, shrubs and greenhouse plants, with all the latest remedies for their eradication (1910) - Sanders, Thomas William - 334 pages
27. Gardening for pleasure : a guide to the amateur in the fruit, vegetable, and flower garden, with full directions for the greenhouse, conservatory, and window-garden (1875) - Henderson, Peter - 264 pages
28. Greenhouse construction; a complete manual on the building, heating, ventilating and arrangement of greenhouses, and the construction of hotbeds, frames and plant pits (1917) - Taft, Levi Rawson - 235 pages
29. How to grow cut flowers. A practical treatise on the cultivation of the rose, carnation, chrysanthemum, violet, and other winter flowering plants. Also greenhouse construction .. (1893) - Hunt, Myron A - 268 pages
30. Plant culture; a working handbook of every day practice for all who grow flowering and ornamental plants in the garden and greenhouse (1900) - Oliver, George Watson - 200 pages
31. Greenhouse and stove plants, flowering and fine-leaved, palms, ferns, and lycopodiums, with full details of the propagation and cultivation of 500 families of plants : embracing all the best kinds in cultivation, suitable for growing in the greenhouse, intermediate house, and stove (1894) - Baines, Thomas - 456 pages
32. Greenhouse construction and heating: containing full descriptions of the various kinds of greenhouses, stove houses, forcing houses, pits and frames, with directions for their construction, and also descriptions of the different types of boilers, pipes, and heating apparatus generally, with instructions for fixing the same (1901) - Ravenscroft, B. C - 264 pages
33. The nursery-manual; a complete guide to the multiplication of plants (1920) - Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde) - 514 pages
34. Market nursery work Volume 1 (1921) - Fletcher, F. J. (Frederick James) - 92 pages
35. Market nursery work Volume 2 (1921) - Fletcher, F. J. (Frederick James) - 90 pages
36. Market nursery work Volume 3 (1921) - Fletcher, F. J. (Frederick James) - 86 pages
37. Market nursery work Volume 4 (1921) - Fletcher, F. J. (Frederick James) - 82 pages
38. Market nursery work Volume 5 (1921) - Fletcher, F. J. (Frederick James) - 90 pages
39. Market nursery work Volume 6 (1921) - Fletcher, F. J. (Frederick James) - 84 pages
40. Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse (1912) - Rockwell, Frederick Frye - 266 pages
41. Fruits and vegetables under glass; (1912) - Turner, William - 264 pages

Here are some images from a few of the books:

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