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78How to Grow and Care for Cyclamens
Cyclamens (Cyclamen persicum) is an excellent flowering house plant for cool locations, creating a picture of fragile beauty during the winter months. This practical text describes their history, care requirements and needs; the illustrations show how to propagate by dividing the corms after the leaves and flowers have died down.
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86How to Grow and Care for Gloxinias
Originally from the forests of Brazil, Gloxinias, or florist gloxinias (Sinningia speciosa), are extremely popular summer flowering house plants. This practical text describes its history, care requirements and needs; the illustrations show how and when to divide tubers, grow from seed and re-pot.
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84How to Grow and Care for Shrimp Plants
Shrimp plants (Beloperone guttata) are easy-to-keep house plants that will flower all year round if you let them. Sometimes they are marketed under the names Drejerella guttata or Justicia brandegeana. This practical text describes their history, care requirements and needs; the illustrations show how and when to prune them.
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78Cadiz, Spain - Land of Equestrian Art, Flamenco and Wine
Equestrian art, flamenco and wine have made the province of Cadiz in Spain famous, but travelers should not overlook its other attractions - the coast of light and the time-honoured tradition of tapas bars.
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85America's West Coast - From San Francisco to Seattle
The splayed cable and steel struts of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge stretched for almost 2 kilometers across the bay while fog swirled around the base of its pillars, each the height of a 65-storey...
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81How to Grow and Care for African Hemp
The African hemp, or room or house lime (Sparmannia africana), is a fast-growing house plant that deserves to be more widely grown. This practical text describes its history, care requirements and needs; the illustrations show how and when to propagate by taking stem tip cuttings.
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77Australia's Botanic Gardens: an English Tradition
The botanic gardens that have become vital green refuges in the middle of many of Australia's cities owe much to the 19th century English tradition, and to a few dedicated men who continued the tradition on our less-than-hospitable shores.
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73Styes: Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
A stye, technically a hordeolum, is an infection in the oil or sweat gland in the upper or lower eyelid. Styes are usually caused by staphylococcus bacterium, and they can spread from person to person through...
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88Mary, Last and Loveliest Queen of the Scots
A biography of Mary Stuart, the last and loveliest Queen of the Scots who was executed for conspiracy against the Queen of England and the State in 1587.
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90The History of Poetry
Traces the history of poetry from its origins in early agricultural societies where it was spoken or chanted as a spell to promote good harvests through to the end of the twentieth century.
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