Another Used Book Treasure

[bluelacedredhead]

I made a good score yesterday in a used book store. I was sucked in by the pretty gardening books in the store window, but inside, I found the $1 Clearance rack. It contained mostly paperback works of fiction of course. But in their midst was one lonely hardcover book crying out to me to pick it up and take it home.

Plant Propagation in Pictures: How to increase the Number of Plants in your Home & Garden by Division, Grafting, Layering, Cuttings, Bulbs and Tubers, Sowing Seeds and Spores. (Illustrated step by step with more than 350 photographs [b&w] and 11 line drawings).
Author Montague Free, Published in 1957 by American Garden Guild & Doubleday & Co., New York.

"for Amateur gardeners. ...to aid those who have no special facilities...but who are interested in the processes involved..."

An hour later, I was at the garden greenhouse project for Special Needs students with 3 other members of the Garden Club and the Teacher; all of us trying to figure out the best way to divide and propagate cuttings from a 50 year old Christmas Cactus. Where was my new book treasure?? Well in the car parked beside the greenhouse of course. I never even thought of looking in it until I was back at home. Some days I can be such a Potato head

[cortona]

blue....being so old this book are uncovered by the copiright?
if uncovered is a nice progect to put it in a pdf file and share, is a fantastic book!
you are lucky!

[spacecase0]

a quick search does not show anyone that has already PDFed it,
but I did find a few copies for sale at a very low price
www.a1books.com/cgi-bin/mktSearch?act=showDesc&code=gbase&rel=1&ITEM_CODE=0385129866

[bluelacedredhead]

Copyright actually is in effect I believe until 50 years after the death of the author?
And my poor old computer would not survive the project
Thanks Space for looking other copies up! I still believe very much in the written word, although I realize that for those wanting to buy books written in English, it can be quite expensive to pay for shipping on something heavy like books to other countries. Therefore the computerized version would be a blessing. It also could be translated into other languages so that too is a bonus.

[flowerpower]

Sounds like an awesome book. I have several houseplant books from the 60's -70's. They are handy to identify all the plants marked "Tropical Foliage" these days.

[ottawagardener]

I have so made so many excellent used book scores. My shelves are lined with them. The thing about the older books is that pre-internet, some of them were really comprehensive references on their subjects. Low on gloss, high on info. Also, during the last 'peak oil' crisis in the 70s, there appeared a huge amount of literature on urban gardening/container gardening/window box greenhouses and so on so it's fun to explore all these old techniques with an eye on updating them.

Yeah, I have some 'tropical foliage' idenfication books too

[bluelacedredhead]

Mar 3, 2010 9:28:10 GMT -5 ottawagardener said:

the 70s, old techniques

Yeah, I know...You can't teach us Old Dogs new tricks, lol