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Ch. 1. Natural reproduction : the propagator's guide -- Ch. 2. Seed collection and storage -- Ch. 3. Seed science -- Ch. 4. Setting up and going on : equipment and facilities -- Ch. 5. Basic techniques with seeds and cuttings -- Ch. 6. Plant disorders including nutrition, pests and diseases, and chimaeras -- Ch. 7. Mosses and ferns -- Ch. 8. Cycads, confers and other gymnosperms -- Ch. 9. Annuals, biennials and plants for patios -- Ch. 10. Perennial herbaceous and evergreen herbs including carnivorous pla
s -- Ch. 11. Herbaceous and evergreen monocots including grasses, restios and aquatics -- Ch. 12. Plants with bulbs and corms -- Ch. 13. Alpines -- Ch. 14. Succulent plants -- Ch. 15. Bromeliads and orchids -- Ch. 16. Shrubs including lianes -- Ch. 17.
"Regarded as a classic among practical gardening guides, Peter Thompson's book has been thoroughly revised and updated, with almost twice as much text and nearly three times as many plants as are found in the celebrated first edition. Though vastly expanded in scope and content for an international readership, Thompson's book still offers the same key philosophy of basing techniques on "observing how plants reproduce naturally.""--BOOK JACKET.
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