The Quintessential Planter

The Quintessential Planter

Author: Hashim Razvi

Publisher: Partridge Publishing

Published: 2014-02-24

Total Pages: 515

ISBN-13: 1482817608

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The author takes the readers to the verdant hills and valleys of Kerala, called Gods own country, where the tea and rubber planters toil from dawn to dusk, in rain or sunshine, to grow tea and rubber.


Step By Step, A Tree Planter’s Handbook

Step By Step, A Tree Planter’s Handbook

Author: Jonathan Clark

Publisher: Thirteen Towers Inc.

Published: 2024-03-31

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13:

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This is the 2024 Digital edition of “Step By Step” (full colour interior). Tree planting is known as being one of the hardest jobs in Canada, with a culture all of its own. Whether you’re considering tree planting as a stepping stone toward a career in forestry, looking for a temporary summer job, or merely curious about the work that your friends do, this book will offer an insightful glimpse into what is involved in becoming a successful tree planter in Canada. This book will teach you about planting basics, types of trees, health, safety, nature, forestry practices, camp life, gear required, quality and density standards, maximizing productivity, working with helicopters, and hundreds of other minor topics. In addition, if you decide that you want to seek out a planting job, this book has a full chapter that will guide you through the ins and outs of getting your first job, including advice on how to reach out to companies and how to prepare for your interview. This edition also contains current contact information for every major tree planting company in Canada. Used as an essential training resource at more than a dozen established Canadian reforestation companies, this handbook will help prepare you for your first day in camp, and help you maximize your earnings through your first and subsequent planting seasons.


The Routledge History of Slavery

The Routledge History of Slavery

Author: Gad Heuman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-11

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1136892540

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The Routledge History of Slavery is a landmark publication that provides an overview of the main themes surrounding the history of slavery spanning the last two milennia. With the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the UK just passed, this volume comes at a timely moment. Taking stock of the field of Slave Studies the book concentrates on the major advances in the field over the past decades in which the study of slavery has become so prominent.


RHS 50 Ways to Start a Garden

RHS 50 Ways to Start a Garden

Author: Simon Akeroyd

Publisher: Mitchell Beazley

Published: 2022-10-13

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 1784728829

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*** 'So you know you want to start gardening but you have no idea where to begin? ... Simon Akeroyd gives step-by-step guidance on everything from creating a cactus collection to growing fruit in hanging baskets. The book turns what is often a daunting task into bite-size steps that can often be done in an afternoon.' George Hudson, Evening Standard, favourite garden publications of the year Aimed at first-time gardeners, those in rented accommodation or anyone with limited outdoor space, this book teaches how to take stock of an environment and start a garden. With ideas for gardens, patio spaces, courtyards, balconies and interiors, these 50 easy-to-adopt ideas provide the steps to success for even the most inexperienced gardeners. Contents include: - Create a floral display with bulbs that last all year - Grow pet-friendly plants - Create a vegetable harvest in pots - Add height in flat spaces - Make a mow-free lawn - Hang plants around your home


Trellises, Planters & Raised Beds

Trellises, Planters & Raised Beds

Author: Editors of Cool Springs Press

Publisher: Strange Chemistry

Published: 2013-04-08

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 159186545X

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DIV A step-by-step guide that gives any gardener all the information needed to make garden furnishings that are both simple and beautiful. This book includes 50 complete plans for trellises, raised beds, planters, window boxes, and just about any imaginable project you can make to train and display plants in your garden and around your home. Featured projects are created using a host of easily found materials, including wood, metal, hypertufa, upcycled barrels, clay pots, sticks, latticework, copper tubing, re-rod, wire, landscape timbers, retaining wall block, and natural stone. Each plan includes photographs, a scaled plan drawing, cutting and shopping lists, and thorough step-by-step instructions. /div


Timeless Landscape Design

Timeless Landscape Design

Author: Mary Palmer Dargan

Publisher: Gibbs Smith

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9780941711852

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"Hugh and Mary Palmer Dargan share the secret to creating an unforgettable landscape with the "Four-Part Master Plan"-a unique method they've perfected over the past 25 years of creating award-winning gardens and yards. The Dargans share a blend of design techniques and practical advice on how to achieve the sophisticated look of a professionally designed landscape on any size and type of property. Design treatments are beautifully illustrated with color photographs, landscape plans, and before and after examples of the authors' work."--Publisher description.


Speak Now Against The Day

Speak Now Against The Day

Author: John Egerton

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2013-08-28

Total Pages: 1173

ISBN-13: 0307834573

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Speak Now Against the Day is the astonishing, little-known story of the Southerners who, in the generation before the Supreme Court outlawed school segregation and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat on a Montgomery bus, challenged the validity of a white ruling class and a “separate but equal” division of the races. The voices of the dissenters, although present throughout the South’s troubled history, grew louder with Roosevelt’s election in 1932. An increasing number of men and women who grappled daily with the economic and social woes of the South began forcefully and courageously to speak and to work toward the day when the South—and the nation—would deliver on the historic promises in the country’s founding documents. This is the story of those brave prophets—thhe ministers, writers, educators, journalists, social activists, union members, and politicians, black and white, who pointed the way to higher ground. Published forty years after the Brown v. Board of Education ruling of the Supreme Court, this compelling book is not only a rich trove of forgotten history—it also speaks profoundly to us in the context of today’s continuing racial and social conflict.


Planters, Merchants, and Slaves

Planters, Merchants, and Slaves

Author: Trevor Burnard

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2019-02-22

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 022663924X

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"As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. Beyond resources and weapons, a plantation required a significant force of cruel and rapacious men men who, as Trevor Burnard sees it, lacked any better options for making money. In the contentious Planters, Merchants, and Slaves, Burnard argues that white men did not choose to develop and maintain the plantation system out of virulent racism or sadism, but rather out of economic logic because to speak bluntly it worked. These economically successful and ethically monstrous plantations required racial divisions to exist, but their successes were always measured in gold, rather than skin or blood. Burnard argues that the best example of plantations functioning as intended is not those found in the fractious and poor North American colonies, but those in their booming and integrated commercial hub, Jamaica. Sure to be controversial, this book is a major intervention in the scholarship on slavery, economic development, and political power in early British America, mounting a powerful and original argument that boldly challenges historical orthodoxy."--


The Water-Saving Garden

The Water-Saving Garden

Author: Pam Penick

Publisher: Ten Speed Press

Published: 2016-02-23

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1607747944

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A guide to growing beautiful gardens in drought-prone areas utilizing minimal water for maximum results. With climate change, water rationing, and drought on the rise, water conservation is more important than ever—but that doesn’t mean your gardening options are limited to cacti and rocks. The Water-Saving Garden provides gardeners and homeowners with a diverse array of techniques and plentiful inspiration for creating sustainable gardens that are so beautiful and inviting, it’s hard to believe they are water-thrifty. Including a directory of 100 plants appropriate for a variety of drought-prone regions of the country, this accessible and contemporary xeriscaping guide is full of must-know information on popular gardening topics like native and drought-tolerant plants (including succulents), rainwater harvesting, greywater systems, permeable paving, and more.


An American Planter

An American Planter

Author: Martha Jane Brazy

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2006-12

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0807142727

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"Duncan grew up in an elite Pennsylvania family with strong business ties in Philadelphia. There was little indication, though, that he would become a cosmopolitan entrepreneur who would own over fifteen plantations in Mississippi and Louisiana, collectively owning more than two thousand slaves. With style and substance, Martha Jane Brazy describes both the development of Duncan's businesses and the lives of the slaves on whose labor his empire was constructed.".