Simon & Schuster's Guide to Plants and Flowers

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Guide to Plant and Flowers

Simon & Shuster's Guide To Plants And Flowers

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Simon & Schuster's Guide to Plants and Flowers
Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer: Fireside
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0671222473

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Simon & Schuster's Guide to Plants and Flowers is the most useful book gardeners can own -- whether they have a few indoor houseplants on the windowsill or endless acres of flowering trees, flowers, and shrubs. Arranged in sixteen sections with convenient alphabetical headings, Simon & Schuster's Guide to Plants and Flowers characterizes each plant as to place of origin, propagation, flowering season, best soil type, and amount of water and sunlight needed for healthy growth. Included are all kinds of houseplants, shrubs, vines, cacti, roses, lilies, annuals and perennials. There are also sections devoted to plants for balconies and terraces, plants for borders and rock gardens, medicinal and aromatic plants, wildflowers, orchids, succulents, bulbs, herbs, and aquatic plants. Edited by a member of the Royal Horticultural Society, the book has been especially designed for American gardeners, providing accurate descriptions of plants that thrive in various parts of the country -- the Northeast, Southwest, Midwest, and so on. There is no comparable book available on the market today. This is a must for indoor gardeners, outdoor gardeners, and all those who want to learn more about the wonderful world of plants.

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Guide to Plant and Flowers.......2007-05-14

It is a great reference andgreat help when deciding what to put in your yard!

Simon & Shuster's Guide To Plants And Flowers.......2006-03-12

The content of the book was helpful. Would recommend to anyone that is interested in plants and flowers.

One of the Best!.......2000-09-29

I have been a semi-professional gardener for 25 years and this is one of the best plant and flower guides you can buy. This book has all the features a beginner or accomplished gardener can ask for -- concise information, a photo of every listed plant, compact size, well organized, very reasonable price, and a large, varied selection. I own many gardening books but this is the first I turn to when I'm looking for plant information.

Fabulous Book.......2000-02-14

An enormous variety of plants and flowers to learn about. Beautiful photos and helpful information of the orginality. A wonderful start to earning a green thumb!

Simon & Schuster's Guide to House Plants

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Simon & Shuster's Guide To House Plants
More Entertaining Than Actually Useful
Small can be handy, but more difficult to read.
Reasonable, but not special.
Great book, the first I got as a brown-thumb!

Simon & Schuster's Guide to House Plants
Allessandro B. Chiulosi
Manufacturer: Fireside
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0671631314

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Simon & Schuster's Guide to House Plants is the definitive guide to selecting the right plants for your indoor environment and making them flourish. The introductory chapter explains how plants grow; how and when to feed, repot, and prune them; how to protect them from pests and diseases; the best ways to arrange and support house plants; and how to engage in hydroculture. Each of the 243 entries, illustrated in lush full color, gives the plant's family, place of origin, description, propagation requirements, and complete instructions on temperature, lighting, and watering.

Whether you are a novice or an expert indoor gardener, this indispensable guide is the most authoritative and useful handbook on house plants you can own.

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Simon & Shuster's Guide To House Plants.......2006-03-12

The content of the book was helpful. Would recommend to anyone that is interested in house plants.

More Entertaining Than Actually Useful.......2004-06-20

There is a lot to like about this book, which offers a listing of 240 plants along with photographs, descriptions, and needs of each--all in a compact size. Even so, I would warn users not to think of it as a houseplant Bible: its descriptions can be misleading and it includes a host plants unsuitable for use as houseplants.

I was quite shocked, for example, to find Nerium Oleander listed as a houseplant. Repeat after me: I will NOT bring Oleander, as either a potted plant or as cut flowers, into the house. Not only is the plant incredibly toxic from flower to root, in a fire it also gives off a deadly gas. If you must have Oleander, plant it outside, away from the house, and where leaf-chewing pets and children will not encounter it.

The text also offers such plants as Coleus, Century Plant, Datura (also known as Angel Trumpet), Gardenia, Passion Flower, and Sago Palm, as houseplants. Although these are not as dramatically unsuitable as houseplants as Oleander, I cannot imagine any one growing them in a casual indoor setting, and the same is true of many other listings. On occasion I also found the text contradictory to what I find in practice, with Coleus a case in point; the text describes it as shade-loving, but I have always planted it in full sun, where it thrives as long as it receives frequent watering.

Most of the photographs included are typical of the varieties listed, but as others have noted it does seem the authors have had difficulty finding good specimens of each. I have rarely seen a more pitiful looking Jade Plant, and while I have grown many a Datura I have never seen one as leafless and spindly as the one presented here. Still, the photographs are indicative; even when the specimen is poor, you should be able to recognize the plant when you encounter it in real life.

Final thought: pretty pictures, interesting text, but unless you actually have a greenhouse or are already very experienced with houseplants, you'll want to take it all with a grain of salt.

GFT, Amazon Reviewer

Small can be handy, but more difficult to read........2003-12-09

This book is designed to be small and handy to use. It would be especially good if you want to take it with you when houseplant shopping. The book does give you a moderate amount of information on each plant. I didn't really care for the little symbols on the side. I prefered reading the description. I found because of the small size the print is also small and the information is run together which makes it more difficult to read.
The book uses the word "fortnight" and "fortnightly" a lot! It also puts the inches and degrees in parenthesis, not my preference.
If you are an experienced houseplant person and have several books this book doesn't add any new information. If you are a beginner and want a handy book, this is a good book. There are books that are equally as good and eaiser to read, but they are larger books.

Reasonable, but not special........2001-01-28

This book gets the job done, but it does not stand out in my mind as being particularly better than a half-dozen other books on the same subject. The information is accurate, and the photography is well done, and some supplemental information on plant propagation, disease recognition, arrangement, etc. has been included at the front. The index includes common as well as scientific names, and there is a glossary of terms.

However, they seem to have had some trouble geting truly nice specimens in some cases (yes, that is an opinion). Pictures included scrawny plants (crassula arborescens; begonia coccinea hybrid), and occasionally discolored plants (sparmania africana; clerodenum thomsonae) I also feel that they have "padded" their plate count somewhat by including plants that would not normally be included in a houseplant book (again, this is opinion). Impatients and tulips come to mind.

Neither of these complaints detract from the information provided, nor are they at a level that in any way interferes with the usefulness of the book as a general identification guide.

Great book, the first I got as a brown-thumb!.......2000-04-24

+AH4-Yes you read it right, I'm a former brown-thumb, never had any luck with plants. Eventually I learned they key, patience, practice and a good identifying and how-to book or two. If I can do it, then anyone can and this book is great, it details each plant in full color with care, propagation, species, family, description, varieties and possible pests and diseases each particular plant is prone to. The nice thing it that it is a small pocket-sized book that you can flip through easily or take+AH4-+AH4- to the nursery or home improvement store with you, no searching through tons of verbage, it's right there. My copy is quite tagged and dog-eared! Since the common and folk names are given and indexed it's so easy to find a plant you don't know the official name for. The pictures are wonderful for those times you are given or buy a plant with no identifying markers to know what it is. I have identified and learned to care for quite a few "mystery plants" by finding them using just the+AH4-+AH4- pictures in this book. My plants all look great and this is the only book I use since it has it all, from start to finish, simply and concisely. A great guide overall, it may not have absolutely every houseplant under the sun (or window) but it has a lot, all the popular and readily-available ones and more than I will likely ever have.+AH4-

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Simon & Schuster's guide to houseplants
Alessandro Chiusoli
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Melchior Bir S. Schedler
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The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann here in a new translation by Michael Henry Heim.

Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells the story of Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual fulfillment that instead leads to his erotic doom.

In the decaying city, besieged by an unnamed epidemic, he becomes obsessed with an exquisite Polish boy, Tadzio. "It is a story of the voluptuousness of doom," Mann wrote. "But the problem I had especially in mind was that of the artist's dignity."

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Bestselling author and award-winning singer Rebecca St. James brings together a group of radical and inspirational true stories about young women who gave their all for Jesus. Around the world, every day, young women are boldly putting themselves forth as believersregardless of the cost. Sometimes they suffer for it, but they never waver in their belief that God has called them to serve Him. In her new book, Rebecca St. James profiles both contemporary women and historical figures from around the world from Joan of Arc to a Midwest high school student to an Olympic athlete. Their stories are sometimes extreme, sometimes more universal, but always inspiring. Divided into 13 weeks, the book features five profiles each week, thought-provoking questions, and space for journaling. Rebecca St. James has inspired thousands with her music; now she empowers them with these very real, godly role models in whose footsteps they can follow.

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sister freaks.......2007-03-10

repetitive of Jesus Freaks
not enough new stories in it that differ from the Jeasus Freaks book.

Liked it........2006-07-11

This is a good book. Easy to read. However, I found it a bit slap dash.

For instance, the chapter on Clare of Assisi sadly lacking. The proper translation for Friars Minor (Latin) is Lesser Brothers. Not Brothers Minor. Lesser Brothers comes from the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 25 Verse 40. The omnipresent NIV translates it as "least of my brothers."

She skips entirely over the part that as sick as Clare was, she refused to die until the pope granted that the sisters be able to live in poverty. Stating only that the pope was impressed by her. Superficial don't you think?

If one is going to write a book about courageous women, then tell us exactly how courageous they were!

EXCELLET BOOK.......2006-01-05

After reading Rebecca's "Wait for Me" book I looked to read more of her work. I was impressed with how it related to "today's" up and coming women. It is definetly a book I would recommend for the younger generation of women and young ladies to inspire them to be bold for God. I also liked the weekly questions to really make one think about their own faith. It is also a nice formate to do as a group study to really make the girls/young women think about who they want to become and where they themselves are headed in their faith. The stories range from acts of great courage in a unbelieving world to everyday ways to living for God. It shows that one doesn't have to lose their life or be tortured to stand up for their faith and live a life worthy of being call a Christian. It shows that any age person can be bold and give everything for their faith. A great book!

Profiles of young women who have found purpose and boldness through their faith.......2005-11-02

Rebecca St. James knows how to inspire an audience. Having received both Grammy and Dove Awards, she's been called "the definite voice in today's contemporary Christian music." She has a particular interest in encouraging teens and young women to claim and act on their Christian faith. In the introduction to SISTER FREAKS, she says, "I admire the bold women, the ones who stand up for something, the sisters strong enough to be considered 'freaks' for the cause of Christ."

After the short introduction, the book loses the personal touch of St. James, and in a third-person voice presents profiles of young women --- in their teens or early 20s --- who have found purpose and, yes, boldness through their faith. The 60 profiles, each about four pages long, are organized in 12 groups of five, suggesting that the selections be read devotionally, over the course of three months. Though the book's sections (Week 1, Week 2) aren't topically titled, the journaling questions at the end of each section suggest the segment's common theme, such as servanthood, acknowledging and overcoming fear, being secure in God's love, and distinguishing between lies and truths.

A few women discussed early in the book are saints of a different era: Joan of Arc, Clare of Assisi, the early martyr Perpetua, Katherine von Bora (who became Mrs. Martin Luther) and Amy Carmichael.

Sprinkled throughout are international stories of great courage, often set in countries where Christians are in physical danger. Most of these are contemporary; some are historic. One particularly moving story is of Manche Masemola, a South African teen of the Pedi tribe martyred in 1928 at the hands of her own family, which disapproved of her desire for baptism. Several profiles such as this model a faith based on allegiance to God that is more radical than a cursory command to obey one's parents.

Most of the stories are of young women who've grown up in the U.S. Some involve facing and overcoming obstacles all too familiar: peer pressure, poor self-image, unwanted pregnancy, abandonment. Some are inspiring stories of women who've dedicated their lives to loving service to others, in inner cities, in restrictive countries, in African orphanages, in pregnancy centers, and in college student ministries.

This is a book for women who are young in physical years but seasoned in faith. On one hand, the book requires little of its reader, explaining, for example, that malaria is "a disease passed through mosquitoes" and cholera is "a very deadly disease from contaminated water." On the other hand, it sometimes relies on a Christianese that the uninitiated may not connect with. One high schooler is quoted as saying that God "gave me beauty for ashes and called me out to go forth and allow Him to use me." And one chapter begins, "Eight years ago, God lit a fire for missions in [Jaime's] soul."

In her introduction, St. James explains that all the women profiled in this book "held true to God, and they all inspire me to live a bigger, greater life." In some circles, SISTER FREAKS may become a modern hagiography. Should I explain the word? An idealized biography, especially of saints.

--- Reviewed by Evelyn Bence

Excellent Book!!!.......2005-10-19

This is an excellent book about female Christians that gave up a lot for God. I'm a teenager, and found that this book was well-written and easy to understand. I liked the fact that the stories were really short but still deep, and about women from around the world, not just in the U.S. If you're looking for a good book, read this!!!

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