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100 1 _aBardswell, Frances A.
245 1 4 _aThe Book of Town & Window Gardening
246 1 _aThe Book of Town and Window Gardening
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2018
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aHandbooks of practical gardening, 19
500 _aRelease date is 2018-06-02
508 _aProduced by David E. Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"The Book of Town & Window Gardening" by Frances A. Bardswell is a practical gardening guide written in the early 20th century. The book offers insights and advice specifically tailored for urban dwellers who wish to cultivate plants in limited spaces typical of city environments, such as window boxes, balconies, and rooftops. Its likely focus is on encouraging urban residents to connect with nature by growing flowers and plants despite the challenges of urban living, pollution, and space constraints. The opening of the book establishes a fond acknowledgment of London as a city vibrant with the presence of flowers, even amid its smoke and smog. Bardswell describes the deep-rooted English love for gardening and the joy that comes from growing one's own plants, asserting that self-cultivated flowers inspire genuine affection that cut flowers cannot match. She reassures potential city gardeners that many plants thrive in urban conditions and presents a variety of suitable flowers, such as Sweet Peas and Pyrethrums, emphasizing their beauty and hardiness in the midst of the challenging cityscape. The author sets a warm and encouraging tone, inviting readers to find fulfillment and joy through the practice of town gardening. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aGardening
700 1 _aRoberts, Harry,
_d1871-1946
830 0 _aHandbooks of practical gardening, 19
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57251
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