Here you will find details about the books and other resources quoted throughout this blog. Where a free digital version exists online, I will also provide a link.

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Bennet, Ida Dandridge; Vegetable garden, the; New York: McClure Co., 1908 [available on the Internet Archive]

Blacknall, O. W., Practical strawberry and general berry fruit culture, also of grapes, asparagus, rhubarb, etc.; Kittrell, NC: Continental Plant Co. 1902 [available on the Internet Archive]

Culpeper, Nicholas, Culpeper’s complete herbal: consisting of a comprehensive description of nearly all herbs with their medicinal properties and directions for compounding the medicines extracted from them; London, W. Foulsham & Co. [1880] — originally published 1652 [available on the Internet Archive ; alternate version (facsimile of 1814 ed)  with illustrations also available]

Gardiner, Richard, Profitable Instructions for the manuring, sowing and planting of kitchin gardens; New York : Da Capo Press, 1973 (reprint of 1603 ms)

Hit, Thomas; A Treatise of fruit-trees, second edition; London: Osborne & Shiption, 1757 [available on the Internet Archive]

Johnson, George William, The kitchen garden: its arrangement and cultivation; London : Orr and Smith, 1836. [available at the Internet Archive]

Nolan, Aretus Wilbur and Greene, James Henry, Vegetable gardening and canning: a manual for garden clubs; New York: Row, Peterson & Co., 1917 [available at the Internet Archive]

Sayre, C. B., Winter forcing of rhubarb — University of Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin no. 298, 1927 [available on the Internet Archive]

Slingerland, Mark Vernon and Crosby, Cyrus Richard, Manual of fruit insects; New York: Macmillan Co., 1919 [1922 ed. available at the Internet Archive]

Teetgen, Ada B., Profitable herb growing and collecting, 2nd. ed.; New York: Charles Scribner & Sons, 1919 [1916 (first ed.) available at the Internet Archive]

Teuscher, Henry, Vegetable garden for a family of five, 3rd ed. – Bulletin of the Montreal Botanical Garden No. 3, 1948.

Thompson, Fred S., Rhubarb or Pie Plant Culture. Illustrated; Milwaukee, Wis.: J. H. Yewdale & Sons Co., 1894 [available at the Internet Archive]

Wright, Walter P., Illustrated encyclopaedia of gardening, an; London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1911 [1913 reprint available at the Internet Archive]

Wright, Walter P., Pictorial practical fruit growing; New York: Cassell & Co., 1907 [1901 ed. available at the Internet Archive]

Wright, Walter P., Wright encyclopaedia of gardening, the; London: J.M. Dent, 1933.

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Where to find:

Many books referenced can be found at the University of Victoria Library either in print or electronically; if you are not in Victoria, check with your local library or search on WorldCat to find the nearest copy.