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Montague Free (1885–1965)

Author of All About House Plants: Their Selection, Culture, and Propagation and How to Use Them for Decorative Effect

19 Works 392 Members 1 Review

About the Author

Includes the names: Montague Free, Fully Illustrated with Color Phot Montague Free

Image credit: with Buddleja alternifolia (Fountain Butterfly Bush)

Series

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Guide

Works by Montague Free

All About House Plants: Their Selection, Culture, and Propagation and How to Use Them for Decorative Effect (1946) 95 copies

Plant propagation in pictures: how to increase the number of plants in your home and garden by division, grafting,… (1957) 87 copies

All About African Violets: The Complete Guide to Success With Saintpaulias (1951) 62 copies

Plant pruning in pictures; how, when, and where to prune, and with what tools (1961) 49 copies

All About the Perennial Garden (1955) 33 copies

A Complete Guide To Gardening (1954) 28 copies

GARDENING A COMPLETE GUIDE TO GARDEN MAKING (1937) 19 copies

The pocket book of flower gardening (1943) 5 copies

Flowers of winter, indoors and out, (Pocket garden library, ed. by L. Barron) (1917) 3 copies

Gardening: the Complete Garden Book (1954) 2 copies

The Concise Encyclopedia of Favorite Flowers 1 copy

Pkt Book of Flower Gardening (1943) 1 copy

Planting Pruning in Pictures (1961) 1 copy

ALL ABOUT HOUSE PLANTS [HOUSEPLANTS]; Their Selection, Culture and Propogation. (1946) 1 copy

War gardens : a pocket guide for home vegetable growers 1 copy

The rose garden of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (Brooklyn botanic garden record) 1 copy

All About House Plants by Montague Free 1955 with Dust Jacket Illustrated (1777) 1 copy

Rare ALL ABOUT HOUSE PLANTS BY MONTAGUE FREE 1946 Book Club Edition (1946) 1 copy

Plant propagation in pictures how to increase the number of plants in your home and garden by division, grafting,… 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate: 1885-12-12
Date of death: 1965
Gender: male
Birthplace: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Places of residence: Vermont, USA
Occupations: horticulturist
gardener
Organizations: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Kew Gardeners in America
Saint George's Society
American Horticultural Society
Horticultural Society of New York (show all 7)
Alpine Garden Society of Great Britain

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All About House Plants: Their Selection, Culture,… by Montague Free

Extensive information about growing plants in containers and indoors. Paper cover destroyed while at fifteen acres. Otherwise, in good condition and quite useable.

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Works: 19
Members: 392
Popularity: #61,822
Rating: ½ 3.4

Reviews: 1
ISBNs: 7

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