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Book Review of HOW TO GROW BEAUTIFUL HOUSE PLANTS

HOW TO GROW BEAUTIFUL HOUSE PLANTS
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[From back cover] Whether you live in a house in the country or in a city apartment; Whether you grow your plants in a greenhouse or on a window sill, you can take part in the greening of indoor America! HOW TO GROW BEAUTIFUL HOUSE PLANTS is an easy-to-use, informative guide to the fascinating hobby of growing plants indoors. Profusely illustrated, with detailed advice on every aspect of indoor gardening, this book will tell you all you need to know about: Watering, fertilizing, lighting requirements, repotting, soil mixtures, porpogation and plant diseases. With special features as: Growing herbs indoors, house plants from vegetables, terrariums and bottle gardens, caring for gift plants, forcing bulbs and growing plants without soil. [266 pages, 1973 Fawcett Publications, Inc.]

Great piece for the self-taught horticulturist or green-thumb wannabees.